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Fiction Writer. Professor. Scholar.
Aimee Parkison has garnered both critical praise and prestigious awards. A prolific writer with an impressive range, her work has been published widely with over one hundred works in journals, in print and online, in translation in Italian, and in anthologies such as The Best Small Fictions and books of literary fiction published by university presses and prestigious independent presses, including Girl Zoo (Fiction Collective 2) and Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, selected by Stephen Graham Jones for the FC2 Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction. Parkison earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from Cornell University and is a Professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Oklahoma State University. Her writing has been awarded a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from Fiction Collective Two, the Kurt Vonnegut Prize from North American Review, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, a prize from Fiction International, a Puffin Foundation Fellowship, a William Faulkner Literary Competition Award for the Novel, and an American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Creative Artists Fellowship. She has also received an OSU Regents Distinguished Research Award, an OSU Humanities, Arts, and Design (HAD) Grant, and a DRC Hargis Fellowship. Recent Publications at Conjunctions Parkison: 'Weird Mademoiselle' Mausoleum of Gloaming | Fractured |
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