Aimee Parkison's fiction has won numerous awards and fellowships, including a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from Fiction Collective Two, 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, and an American Antiquarian Society Creative Artists Fellowship.  
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​Aimee Parkison is the author of Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, winner of the Fiction Collective Two Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, published in 2017 by FC2/University of Alabama Press. 

​Her other works include Woman with Dark Horses (Starcherone 2004), The Innocent Party, (BOA Editions, Ltd., American Reader Series 2012), and The Petals of Your Eyes (Starcherone/Dzanc 2014).

​Parkison has taught creative writing at a number of universities, including Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she was the coordinator of the creative writing program, and Oklahoma State University, where she is an Associate Professor of Fiction Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program. Parkison has taught as a visiting faculty member at the British Council's International Creative Writing Summer School in Athens, Greece, and as a fiction faculty member at Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.

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Awards

Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize (NAR)
Christopher Isherwood Fellowship
Writers at Work Fellowship
Puffin Foundation Grant
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship
Hearst Fellowship
(American Antiquarian Society)

Future Appearances

Fiction Reading,
University of Central Oklahoma:
Sept. 22, 2015

Fiction Reading, Cameron University: March 25, 2016

Panel Presentation at AWP 2016,
Los Angeles:
"A Finished Conversation?: Gendered Cultures of Creative Writing"
with Lisa Lewis, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Camille Rankine, and Monique Zamir

Forthcoming Pubs

“The Wreckage of Reason: Women Writers of Contemporary Experimental Prose.” (article)  AWP’s The Writers’ Chronicle magazine. 

“Women Writing Violence.” (article) AWP’s The Writers’ Chronicle magazine. 

"Child of Prayer" (flash fiction) The Santa Fe Literary Review