Her stories have appeared in literary journals such as the Antioch Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, Kenyon Review and Southern Review. Gautier’s stories have also appeared in the anthologies Best African-American Fiction and New Stories from the South. Her new collection of short stories titled At-Risk, which has received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, tells the stories of New York adolescents in the 80’s, who are labeled “at-risk” by the school systems.