Aimee Parkison

Aimee Parkison has published eight books of fiction and earned an MFA from Cornell University. Parkison is widely published by journals such as North American Review, Puerto del Sol, Five Points, Bellingham Review, Notre Dame Review, Salt Hill, Western Humanities Review, The Normal School, Feminist Studies, and others. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. Recognized for her experimental fiction about women and her revisionist approach to narrative, Parkison has received the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, the Kurt Vonnegut Prize from North American Review, the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, the Jack Dyer Prize from Crab Orchard Review, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation Fellowship, an American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Creative Artists Fellowship, and a William Faulkner Literary Competition Award for the Novel. Her books are Girl Zoo (FC2), Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman (FC2), Suburban Death Project (Unbound Edition), Disappearing Debutantes (OutPost19), Sister Seance (Kernpunkt), The Innocent Party (BOA Editions), The Petals of Your Eyes (Starcherone), and Woman with Dark Horses (Starcherone). Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines and the Best Small Fictions. Parkison serves on the FC2 Board of Directors and is a full professor who teaches in the Creative Writing Program through the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. More information is available at www.aimeeparkison.com

Awards & Honors:

* OSU Humanities Arts and Design (HAD) Grant
* Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from Fiction Collective Two
* William Faulkner Literary Competition Award for the Novel
* Christopher Isherwood Fellowship
* Kurt Vonnegut Prize from North American Review
* Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction
* Jack Dyer Prize from Crab Orchard Review
* North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship
* Writers at Work Fellowship
* Charles Angoff Award from The Literary Review
*Puffin Foundation Fellowship
* American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Creative Artist Fellowship

Research Interests:

Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Experimental Writing, Women's and Gender Studies, Publishing and Editing, Digital Publishing, Literary Publishing, Digital Literary Publishing, Digital Humanities, Collaborative Writing, Surrealist Prose, Innovative Prose, the Short Story, Novel Writing, the Novella, Experimental Narrative Theory and Practice, Flash Fiction, Revisionist Narratives, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Cross-Genre and Hybrid Prose, Speculative Fiction, Horror Fiction, New Gothic, Slipstream