Aimee Parkison
Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing—Fiction)
Oklahoma State University
Department of English, 205 Morrill Hall,
Stillwater, OK 74078-4069
405-744-1470
aimee@okstate.edu
www.aimeeparkison.com
EDUCATION M.F.A. (English—Creative Writing/Fiction), (August 2002)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
B.A. (with honors—English), (May 2000)
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.
EMPLOYMENT
Oklahoma State University. Stillwater, OK.
Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing—Fiction),
Sept. 2017-present;
Director of Creative Writing Program, January 2017-May 2019;
Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing—Fiction),
August 2014-Sept. 2017.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Charlotte, NC.
Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing—Fiction),
July 2010-July 2014.
Coordinator of Creative Writing Program July 2010-July 2014.
Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing—Fiction),
July 2004-June 2010.
Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.
Lecturer, English Department, 2002-2004.
Teaching Assistant, 2001-2002.
Assistant Editor, Epoch literary magazine, 2000-2001.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Girl Zoo, Stories. (co-authored with Carol Guess), forthcoming and under contract for 2019, FC2 (University of Alabama Press)
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, Stories. FC2/University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa: 2017. [Winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from Fiction Collective Two]
The Petals of Your Eyes. Starcherone Books/Dzanc, Buffalo, NY: 116 pages, 2014
The Innocent Party. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, Ltd., American Readers Series # 17: 179 pages, 2012.
Woman with Dark Horses. Starcherone Press, Buffalo, NY: 256 pages, 2004. [Winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction]
Fiction in Literary Magazines (Print):
“Squirrel Patrol.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, Winter/Dec 2018: 177-182.
“Three Stories” (“Girl in Ransom Note,” “Girl in White-Washed World,” and “Girl in Woman”) (with Carol Guess)--Western Humanities Review, Vol. 72.1, Spring 2018: 15-20.
“Lost Girls.” (with Carol Guess). Salt Hill, Issue 41, 2018: 127-134.
“Girl in Atrophy” & “Girl in the Silent Room.” (with Carol Guess) The Normal School, Vol 11, Issue 1, Spring 2018: 97-98.
“Girl in Lighthouse.” Grub Street, Literary and Arts Magazine, Vol. 67, Towson University, 2018: 27-28.
“Lament in C Minor.” Lake Effect, Vol 22, Spring 2018: 28.
“Girl in Special Collector’s Edition,” (nominated for Pushcart Prize) “Girl in Your Car” (with Carol Guess), and “Girl in Mansion” (with Carol Guess). The Laurel Review. Vol 50, Issue 2, 2017: 66-67, 102-103, 136-138.
“Responsibility.” TANK magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 12, Summer 2017: 96-97.
“The Tourists,” Five Points, A Journal of Literature and Arts, Georgia State University, Vol. 17, No. 3, “Flash Fiction Issue,” 2016: 72.
“Lover with Gun in Mouth, or Autopsy After Murder.”
Fiction International. Department of English, San Diego State University. Issue 49: “Taboo,” 2016: 28-29.
“On Flooded Roads.” North American Review, Vol. 301, No. 3. 2016: 25-27.
“The Candle,” “The Dead Walk After the Rain,” “The Fire Escape.”
The Laurel Review, Vol. 49, Issue 1. 2016: 1-3.
“To See the Hummingbirds as They Fly Through the Trees.” Lake Effect, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Vol. 20, Spring 2016: 11-12.
"Child of Prayer." Santa Fe Literary Review. 2015: 91-92
“Amber Leaves.” Lake Effect: Vol. 19, Spring, Penn State Erie,
The Behrend College. 2015: 43-46.
“The Dirt Room.” This Land: “The Summer Fiction Issue: A Collection of New Work by Oklahoma Authors.” Vol. 5, Issue 16, 2014: 10; 15.
“Mouse.” Unstuck. No. 3, 2014: 361-371
“Paints and Papers.” Lake Effect, Vol. 16, 2012: 156-163.
“Bodies in the Sand.” Tarpaulin Sky, No. 17, Summer 2011: 113.
“Lessons from a Sinoloan Beauty Queen.” Dislocate, Issue 7, Winter 2011:70-82.
“Harassment.” Feminist Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2010: 618-628.
“Theatrum Insectorum.” Lake Effect. Vol. 14, 2010: 9-18.
“Locked Doors.” The Literary Review. Winter 2008: 88-102.
“Vision of Mirrors.” The Tusculum Review. Vol. 4, 2008: 70-72.
“Offensive Image.” Lake Effect, A Journal of the Literary Arts. Vol. 12, Spring 2008: 60-62.
“The Bishop’s Daughter.” Marginalia. Issue 3.2 (Fall 2007): 82-84.
“Shrike.” The Seattle Review. Vol. XXIX: Number 1, 2006: 175-183.
“Chains.” Fugue. Vol. 31. Summer-Fall 2006: 74-78.
“Dummy.” Mississippi Review. Vol 34: Numbers 1-2: 2006. 70-82.
“Murder on the Pasture.” Vox. Vol. 1.2, April 2006: 12-13.
“Call Me Linda.” Yalobusha Review. Vol. XI, 2006: 70-79.
“In the Evening.” Santa Monica Review. Vol. 17.2 (Fall 2005): 37-39.
“Where I Live.” Santa Monica Review. Vol. 17.2 (Fall 2005): 34-36.
“Blue Train Summer.” River City. Vol. 24.1 (Winter 2004): 59-66.
“Van Windows.” Quarterly West. Vol. 57 (Winter 2004): 10-16.
“Warnings.” North American Review. Vol. 289 No. 3-4 (May-Aug. 2004): 3-8.
“Textures.” River City. Vol. 23 No. 1 (Winter 2003): 126-134.
“Collecting.” Harpur Palate. Vol. 3.1 (Summer 2003): 9-24.
“The Glass Girl.” Denver Quarterly. Vol. 38.1 (Spring 2003): 79.
“The Listener.” Denver Quarterly. Vol. 38.1 (Spring 2003): 80.
“Corolla.” American Literary Review. Vol. 13 No. 2 (Fall 2002): 100-114.
“Smile, That’s Why He Loves Her.” Fiction International. Vol. 34, “Madness II,” (2001): 121-126.
“The Upstairs Album.” Crab Orchard Review. Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2001): 116-129.
“Baroness with Strange Eyes.” Other Voices. Vol. 14 No. 35 (Fall/Winter 2001): 1-8.
“A Captured Way.” Denver Quarterly. Vol. 34 No. 1 (Spring 1999): 126-127.
“The Last Secret Tour.” American Literary Review. Vol. 10 No. 1 (Spring 1999): 13-28.
Writing Selected for Anthologies:
“Fishing for Owls.” Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2019. The Saturday Evening Post Society, Saturday Evening Post Editors. Dec. 19, 2018: 26-34.
“Dirty-Dirty Short Shorts: Imaginary Rebecca, True Nakedness, and The Turtle.” The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing. Megan Milks, Editor. Davis Schneiderman, Series Editor. &NOW Books, Lake Forest College, Illinois, 2015: 255-256.
“College Downs.” 27 Views of Charlotte: The Queen City in Prose and Poetry. Eno Publishers, Hillsborough, NC, 2014: 134-143.
“Save Her.” Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board, An Anthology of Contemporary XXperimental Women Writers, edited by Nava Renek and Natalie Nuzzo. Spuyten Duyvil, New York City, 2014: 45-48.
“Imaginary Rebecca,” “True Nakedness,” and “The Turtle.” Dirty: Dirty. Edited by Debra Di Blasi. Jaded Ibis Press, LLC, Seattle, WA, 2013: 96-98.
“Cradled.” Men Undressed: Female Writers and the Male Sexual Experience. Edited by Stacy Bierlein, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Kat Meads. Other Voices Books, Chicago, 2011: 330-343.
Untitled “. . . knife . . . wound . . . ear . . .” [ C. ] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology. Edited by Andrew Borgstrom & J.A. Tyler. Mud Luscious Press, 2011: 74.
“Undocumented.” I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, an anthology edited by Melissa Kwasny and M.L. Smoker. Lost Horse Press. Sandpoint, Idaho, 2009: 93.
“Intuition.” Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Experimental Prose by Women Writers. Edited by Nava Renek. Spuytenduyvil Press, 2008: 281-284.
“The Glass Girl.” PP/FF, an anthology. Peter Connors, Editor. Starcherone Press, 2006: 165.
“The Listener.” PP/FF, an anthology. Peter Connors, Editor. Starcherone Press, 2006: 231.
Poetry in Literary Magazines:
“Online Dating.” 34th Parallel Magazine: Issue 29, Reality and Fiction, 2015: 20-23.
“Nestled.” The Cossack Review. Vol. 2. Issue 1, 2014: 38.
“Goth Girl’s Lullaby.” 5AM, 2013.
“The Creature.” Rattle. Vol. 18, No. 2, 2012: 108.
“Immigrant Marriage” and “Deportation.” Cimarron Review. Issue 180, 2012: 56-58.
“Immigration Issues.” PMS (poem memoir story). Number 10, 2010: 28.
“If Sara Wasn’t Sara.” 5AM. Issue # 31, 2010, (Issn: 1046-9826): 10.
“Former Friends.” Briar Cliff Review, 2010: 38.
“The New Wife.” The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review. Fall 2009. Vol. XIX, No. 3, 2009: 9.
“Invisible God Swims with Knife.” So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art. Summer/Fall 2008. Vol. 17, No. 2: 39.
“Necklace of Names.” Hayden’s Ferry Review. Spring/Summer 2008, Issue 42: 51.
“I Stood in the Shade.” Nimrod International Journal. Spring/Summer 2008, Vol. 51, No. 2: 130.
“In the Aquarium.” California Quarterly (California State Poetry Society). Vol. 33, No. 4: 32.
“Ashes to Ashes.” The Texas Review. Vol. 27, No. 1-2, S/S: 110-116.
“Hollow Wall.” Mochila Review. Vol. 8: 95-96.
“First Fantasy.” Mochila Review. Vol. 8: 90-91.
“Spinning Light.” Mochila Review. Vol. 8: 92-94.
Forthcoming Works of Fiction from Literary Magazines and Anthologies:
“Centerfold” –Hotel Amerika
“Girl in Medical Trials”--Fiction International
“Girl in Drain” (co-authored with Carol Guess), Winter Tangerine.
Nonfiction: Articles, Essays, and Book Reviews:
“The Delicious Unease of a Lesser Day,” a review of Andrea Scrima’s A Lesser Day (Spuyten Duyvil), The Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 4, 2018.
<https://brooklynrail.org/2018/09/books/The-Delicious-Unease-of-A-Lesser-Day>
“Coming Alive,” a review of Courtney E. Morgan’s The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman (FC2), American Book Review, Vol. 38, No. 5: July/Aug 2017: 22.
“Mood Swing Ring,” review of Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack (University of Chicago) by Mary Cappello. American Book Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Nov/Dec 2016: 23.
“Women Writing Violence” (essay)— AWP’s The Writers’ Chronicle magazine, Vol. 49, No. 2, Oct/Nov. 2016: 110-120.
“Self-Portrait of the Poet,” a review of Jessica Jacob’s Pelvis with a Distance (White Pine Press). American Book Review, Vol. 37, Number 2. Jan/Feb 2016: 29.
“The Wreckage of Reason: Women Writers of Contemporary Experimental Prose.” (essay) AWP’s The Writers’ Chronicle magazine, Vol. 48, No. 2, Oct/Nov. 2015: 88-99.
"Dark Web Stories." (article) State magazine, OSU, Fall, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2015: 46-47.
“The Secret Sharer,” a review of Nickole Brown’s Fanny Says.
American Book Review (BOA). “Women Unbound: Feature.” Volume 36, Number 4, May/June 2015: 11.
“All the Pretty Things;” a review of The Beautiful Anthology, Elizabeth Collins, editor. TNB Books. American Book Review. Vol. 33, No. 5, 2012: 20.
“NoDa, a Description.” Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook (North Carolina Literary Trails), 1st edition, University of North Carolina Press, Oct. 15, 2010: 97.
Online Fiction Publications:
“Joe and Irish”-- Savoy Operetta, Issue 1. January 14, 2019.
<https://savoylitmag.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/joe-and-irish/?fbclid=IwAR2aylx1hdZ2L-sI2L8fTAhdK2gIhLplvzD58y8laA-hzvBUNpr9BaNwEm0>
“A Trail Through Woods”--The Collagist, Issue 99. October 2018.
<http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2018/9/28/a-trail-through-woods.html>
“Girls in Bars.” New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 14. August 2018.
<http://newflashfiction.com/aimee-parkison/>
“As Petals Fall on Asphalt Roads” & “The Forgotten Daughter.”
The Adroit Journal, Issue 25. 2018.
<http://www.theadroitjournal.org/issue-twenty-five-aimee-parkison>
“Girl in Knots,” (co-authored with Carol Guess).
Necessary Fiction. Feb. 28, 2018.
<http://necessaryfiction.com/stories/CarolGuessandAimeeParkisonGirlinKnots>
“Girl in Glass.” Monkeybicycle, Jan. 12, 2018.
<http://monkeybicycle.net/girl-in-glass/>
“Girls in Windows.” (co-authored with Carol Guess) Monkeybicycle,
Jan. 5, 2018.
<http://monkeybicycle.net/girls-in-windows/>
“Girl in Dog House” (co-authored with Carol Guess). New Delta Review. 2017.
http://ndrmag.org/fiction/2017/12/girl-in-dog-house/
(nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“The Necklace Eater.” Tupelo Quarterly, Oct. 14, 2017.
< http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/the-necklace-eater-by-aimee-parkison/>
“Girl in Finger Web.” Glassworks, Rowan University. Sept. 1, 2017.
<http://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2017/girl-in-finger-web-by-aimee-parkison>
“Girl in Cloud.” (co-authored with Carol Guess), Diagram, 17.6, 2017.
https://thediagram.com/17_6/guess-parkison.html
“Girl in Clock” (co-authored with Carol Guess), Quarterly West. 2017.
“The Tourists” (reprint)--Great Jones Street. Nov. 2017.
https://www.greatjonesstreet.press/the-tourists-by-aimee-parkison/
“What Happened with Gilbert that Night” (reprint)--Great Jones Street.
Nov. 2017.
https://www.greatjonesstreet.press/author/423/
“Code Violations” (reprint)--Great Jones Street. Nov. 2017.
https://www.greatjonesstreet.press/code-violations-by-aimee-parkison/
“Code Violations” and “The Casting Director.” The Collagist.
January 2016.
<http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2016/1/8/code-violations.html>
<http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2016/1/8/the-casting-director.html>
“Snow in Thunder,” “The Self and Others,” “Follow Me Home,” and “The Lost Sea.” Atticus Review. 2015.
<http://atticusreview.org/snow-in-thunder/>
<http://atticusreview.org/the-self-and-others/>
<http://atticusreview.org/follow-me-home/>
<http://atticusreview.org/the-lost-sea/>
“Spider Box” – Plinth. 2014.
<http://www.plinth.us/issue02/parkison.html>
“Birds Who Look Into Mirrors.” The Nervous Breakdown. 2013.
<http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/aparkison/2013/02/birds-who-look-into-mirrors/>
“Theater of Cruelty.” The Rumpus. 2012. <http://therumpus.net/2012/03/sunday-rumpus-fiction-theater-of-cruelty/>
“The Creature.” Rattle Online. 2012.
<http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2013/08/the-creature-by-aimee-parkison/>
Web Del Sol Online Chapbook. 2004.
<http://www.webdelsol.com/LITARTS/Aimee_Parkison/wds.htm>
“Allison’s Idea” – Tarpaulin Sky. 2004.
<http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Fall03/APAllison.htm>
“What Happened with Gilbert That Night” – Web Conjunctions, 1999.
<http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/parkis.htm>
Online Nonfiction Publications:
“Flash Fiction: Saying the Unsayable.” Free Word (Free Word Center in London, Supported by Arts Council England), Feb. 6, 2016:
<https://www.freewordcentre.com/explore/a-parkison>
“Writing a Story from Black-and-White Photographs.” North American Review, June 28, 2016:
<http://northamericanreview.org/writing-story-black-white-photographs-aimee-parkison/>
Fellowships and Grants:
Oklahoma State University Norris Grant, 2016 & 2017.
Oklahoma State University DIG (Dean’s Incentive Grant), 2015 & 2016
Oklahoma State University Arts and Sciences Speaker Series Grants, 2015.
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in Prose Writing, 2013-2014
William Randolph Hearst Creative Artist Fellow,
American Antiquarian Society Fellowship
for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers, 2013
Christopher Isherwood Foundation/ James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction, 2005-2006
Puffin Foundation Grant for a novel in progress, 2006
UNCC Frances Lumsden Gwynn Award for research, 2007
UNCC Mini-Grant for a novel in progress, 2005
Writers at Work Fellowship Winner in fiction for an original short story, “Van Windows,” 2003
Lew Wentz Fellowship for undergraduate research at Oklahoma State University for a thesis entitled “Gender, Terror, and the Family,” focusing on the psychology and motifs of gothic literature, 1998-1999
Honors and Awards:
Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Girl in Special Collector’s Edition,” 2018
Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Lost Girls,” 2018
Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Girl in Ransom Note,” 2018
FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, 2016
Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Theater of Cruelty,” 2012
Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Locked Doors,” 2008
Charles Angoff Award given by the editors of The Literary Review for an original story, “Locked Doors,” 2008
“Blue Train Summer” short-listed under “Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2004” in The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 anthology
Finalist 2008 Michigan Literary Fiction Award, University of Michigan Press
Semi-Finalist FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, 2007
Semi-Finalist in Eastern Washington University Press’s Spokane Prize, 2006, for an unpublished short-story collection
Finalist, 2005 Vox Prose Poem Contest
Finalist Yalobusha Review Contest
Finalist for the Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Award (“Call Me Linda,” 2005)
Runner-up 2005 Mississippi Review Prize for the short story “Dummy”
Semi-Finalist, 2005 Julia Peterkin Award from Converse College
First place in North American Review’s first annual Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize for an original short story, “Warnings” in 2004
First Place Starcherone Press 2003 book prize for Woman with Dark Horses
Finalist, “New Century Writing Awards” for Van Windows, A Screenplay
Finalist, Mid-American Review Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, 2003
Second Place, River City Fiction Prize, 2002
Finalist, American Literary Review Fiction Contest, 2002
Semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project in 2001 and 2002
Finalist, Glimmer Train Fiction Open, 2002
Jack Dyer Fiction Prize for the short story “The Upstairs Album” selected by Carolyn Alessio, prose editor of Crab Orchard Review, 2001
First Place in a contest for emerging writers on the subject of madness from Fiction International magazine, 2001
First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Contest, 1998
First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Contest, 1999
First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Poetry Contest, 1998
Oklahoma Regents Academic Scholarship for undergraduate education, 1995-2000
Press, Reviews, and Articles (Selected) About My Work:
“Aimee Parkison Receives NC Arts Council Fellowship.” UNC Charlotte Exchange Online, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
<https://exchange.uncc.edu/aimee-parkison-receives-nc-arts-council-fellowship/>
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman
Kirkus Review:
<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/aimee-parkison/refrigerated-music-for-a-gleaming-woman/>
Necessary Fiction:
<http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/RefrigeratedMusicforaGleamingWomanbyAimeeParkison>
The Brooklyn Rail:
<https://brooklynrail.org/2017/05/books/Deft-Eloquent-Shiversome-and-Timely>
Woman with Dark Horses
Review by Mark Tursi, Rain Taxi (print), Vol. 9, No.3, Fall 2004 (#35).
The Innocent Party
Review by Debrah Lechner for Hayden’s Ferry Review:
<http://haydensferryreview.com/haydensferryreview/2012/05/book-review-innocent-party-by-aimee.html?rq=aimee%20parkison>
Review by Joseph Dewey in The Review of Contemporary Fiction (print), Oct. 1, 2012.
The Petals of Your Eyes
“An Eroticism of the Eyes: The Petals of Your Eyes by Aimee Parkison,” Review by Stephanie Dickinson,” Drunken Boat 21:
<http://www.drunkenboat.com/db21/reviews/eroticism-eyes>
“Allegory as Screen Memory: A Review of Aimee Parkison’s The Petals of Your Eyes,” by Brooke Wonders, Entropy magazine, June 5, 2014:
<http://entropymag.org/allegory-as-screen-memory/>
Reviewed by Diane Josefowicz, Necessary Fiction, Feb. 16, 2015:
<http://www.necessaryfiction.com/reviews/ThePetalsofYourEyesbyAimeeParkison>
“Top Indie Fiction: 30 Key Titles Beyond the Best-Sellers List for Spring/Summer 2014,” by Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal, June 3, 2014:
<http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2014/06/books/fiction/top-indie-fiction-30-key-titles-beyond-the-best-sellers-list-for-springsummer-2014/>
“19 Great Small Press Books You Might Have Missed in 2014,” by Laura Miller, Bustle magazine, Dec. 23, 2014:
<http://www.bustle.com/articles/53924-19-great-small-press-books-you-may-have-missed-in-2014-as-chosen-by-small-press>
Paul, Andrew. “Brian Evenson on Six Novels that Justify Making You Sick to Your Stomach,” A.V. Club, May 3, 2016:
<http://www.avclub.com/article/brian-evenson-6-novels-justify-making-you-sick-you-234498>
Interviews (Selected):
"Interview with Aimee Parkison" by Brandon Hobson. The Believer Logger, Go Forth, Vol. 46
<https://logger.believermag.com/post/go-forth-vol-46>
Interview with Carol Guess, New Delta Review blog, Jan. 2017.
<http://ndrmag.tumblr.com/>
"I Live in a Haunted House": An Interview with Aimee Parkison,” The Collagist, April 30, 2016:
<http://thecollagist.com/collagist-blog/2016/4/30/i-live-in-a-haunted-house-an-interview-with-aimee-parkison.html>
“An Interview with Aimee Parkison” by Kathryn Brining, Denia R. Martinez, & Michael Nusspickel, Glassworks magazine, a publication of Rowan University’s Masters of Art in Writing (print and online), 2016:
<http://www.rowanglassworks.org/aimee-parkison.html>
“Fractured Beauty: An Interview with Aimee Parkison by Georgia Bellas,” Atticus Review, January 26, 2015:
<http://atticusreview.org/fractured-beauty-an-interview-with-aimee-parkison/>
TEACHING AND INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES
Graduate Courses Taught at Oklahoma State University:
Seminar in Fiction Writing: Story Logic (Engl 5730)
Seminar in Fiction Writing: Character (Engl 5730)
Seminar in Fiction Writing: Imaginative Landscapes (Engl 5730)
Seminar in Fiction Writing: The Short Story Cycle (Engl 5730)
Crafts and Forms of Prose: Advanced Creative Project (Engl 5763)
Masters Thesis (Engl 5000)
Doctoral Dissertation (Engl 6000)
Undergraduate Courses Taught at Oklahoma State University:
Intro to Creative Writing (Engl 2513)
Fiction Writing (Engl 3030)
Advanced Fiction Writing (Engl 4630)
Liberal Studies Senior Project (A&S 4013)
ENGL 3000/HONORS 21639: Frontier Mosaic
Honors Contracts (multiple)
Honors Thesis (Honors 3000)
Advising in Graduate Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University:
Directed Multiple Creative Writing Dissertations and Thesis Projects, including Chairing Thesis/Dissertation Committees and Directing Graduate Student Independent Research in the areas of Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing for Student Advisees
Graduate Courses Taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte:
Writing the Short Novel (Engl 6070)
Writing Fiction (Engl 5203)
The Liar’s Club: Telling True Stories from Memory to Memoir
(Engl 6070)
Fiction Writing Workshop (Engl 5209)
Advanced Creative Project (Engl 5290)
Screenwriting for Fiction Writers (Engl 6070)
Screenwriting (Engl 6070)
Imaginative Landscapes: Creating Fictional Worlds (Engl. 6070)
Undergraduate Courses Taught at University of North Carolina at Charlotte:
Writing About Literature (Engl 2100)
Introduction to Poetry (Engl 2105)
Introduction to Creative Writing (Engl 2126)
Project 28223: Writing the University Sitcom (Engl 3050)
Writing Fiction (Engl 4203)
Fiction Writing Workshop (Engl 4209)
Advanced Creative Project (Engl 4290)
Film Criticism (Engl 2090)
Gothic Literature (Engl 3050)
Screenwriting (Engl 3050)
Intermediate Fiction (Engl 3202)
Introduction to Poetry (Engl 2105)
Undergraduate Courses Taught at Cornell University:
Creative Writing (Engl 281)
Writing About Film (Engl 108)
Bloody Transgressions: Race, Sex, and Gender in Gothic Literature
Mystery Stories (Engl. 147)
Practical Poetics and Fictional Rhetoric Committee (OSU):
Member, Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Chair, Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Chair, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
MFA Thesis Committee Chair, Director, and Advisor (OSU):
Kyle Hayes (fiction, completed Spring 2016)
Cannon Roberts (fiction, completed 2015)
Jake Brewer (fiction, completed, Spring 2017)
Angela Greenroy (fiction, completed, Spring 2017)
Emilie Talent (fiction, completed, Spring 2018)
Maggie Marshall (fiction, completed Spring 2018)
Kevin Phillips (fiction, in progress)
Amanda Hays (fiction, in progress)
MFA Thesis Committee Member (OSU):
Thomas Burnett (fiction, Spring 2016)
Nick Martin (creative nonfiction, completed Spring 2017)
Kate Williams (poetry, completed Spring 2017)
Emma Murray (poetry, completed Spring 2017
Kate Williams (poetry completed Spring 2017)
Cheryl Kutcher (poetry, completed Spring 2017
Elizabeth Morgan (fiction, completed Spring 2016)
Paul Armstrong (poetry, completed Spring 2016)
Andrew Arnold (fiction, completed Spring 2015)
Kate Strum (fiction, completed Spring 2015)
Thomas Burnett (fiction, completed Spring 2016)
Tim Treder (fiction, completed Spring 2016)
Beth Ann Mock (poetry, completed Spring 2016)
Todd Crow (fiction, in progress)
David Channell (CNF, in progress)
Jen Hudgens (poetry, in progress)
Kaila Lancaster (fiction, in progress)
Roslyn Marshall (CNF, in progress)
Keith York (fiction, in progress
PhD Dissertation Committee Chair, Director, and Advisor (OSU):
Luke Loftiss (fiction, in progress)
Mark Difruscio (fiction, in progress)
Michael Sloyka (fiction, completed Spring 2018)
Alex Hughes (fiction, in progress)
Alan Blair (fiction, dissertation defense completed Spring 2017)
Eduardo Astigarraga (fiction, dissertation defense completed Spring 2017)
Ryan Thorpe (creative nonfiction, completed 2015)
PhD Dissertation Committee Member (OSU):
Haesong Kwon (poetry, completed Spring 2016)
Roger Mullins (fiction, completed Spring 2015)
Brandon Hobson (fiction, completed Spring 2015)
Katherine Markey (poetry, in progress)
Jacqueline Alnes (CNF, in progress)
Tomie Bitton (CNF, in progress)
Paul Armstrong (poetry, in progress)
Christopher Linforth (fiction, in progress)
Gretchen Vanwormer (CNF, in progress)
PhD Qualifying Examination Committee Member (OSU):
Roger Mullins (fiction, 2015)
Brandon Hobson (fiction, 2014)
Aubrey Johnson (poetry, 2016)
Dustin McCormick (poetry, 2017)
Michael Sloyka (fiction, 2018)
Jacqueline Alnes (CNF, in progress)
Tomie Bitton (CNF, in progress)
Christopher Linforth (fiction, in progress)
Katherine Markey (poetry, in progress)
Liberal Studies Project Mentor and Director/Advisor (OSU):
Christopher Layfield (screenwriting) (Fall 2015)
Roslyn Marie Dubberstein (playwriting/fiction writing) (Spring 2015)
Honors Contracts Supervised (OSU):
Adam Glover (Spring 2018)
Onellah Weerakoon (Spring 2017)
Matilda Schulmann (Spring 2017)
Tara Sepulveda (Spring 2017)
Ashton Patton (Spring 2015 and Spring 2016)
Kate Phillips (Spring 2016)
James Lee (Spring 2016)
Amanda Hays (Spring 2016)
Honors Thesis Advising (OSU):
Kennedy Essmiller (Fall 2018-Spring 2019)
Preston Phillips (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
Ashton Patton (Fall 2016-Spring 2017)
University Workshops and Teaching Training:
Instructional Diversity Workshop Participant, UNCC Summer Institute 2009 and 2006
Teaching Large Classes Workshop Participant, UNCC Summer Institute 2009
Communications Across the Curriculum (CAC) Workshop Participant, UNCC Summer Institute 2009
Teaching Internship, John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, Summer 2001.
Peer Collaboration Program, Cornell University, Spring 2001 and Fall 2003.
(In this program, instructors who teach similar courses meet to discuss issues that arise in teaching and to share ideas about teaching writing, grading strategies, related lectures, assignments, and writing exercises.)
Writing 700: “Teaching Writing,” Cornell University, Summer 2001.
SERVICE
University and Community Service at Oklahoma State University:
Scholarship Coordinator, Ruby N. Courtney Writer's Scholarship,
2015-present
Faculty Advisor for Frontier Mosaic, official Department of English publication, OSU student organization, and Oklahoma State University’s Online Undergraduate Literary Magazine: <www.frontiermosaic.com> 2014-present
OSU Grandparent University Instructor, “Fiction Writing” for Session II: June 27-29 2018
Department Committees at Oklahoma State University:
Curriculum Committee, Member and Secretary (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
Practical Poetics and Fictional Rhetoric, Chair (Fall 2016-Spring 2018)
Hiring Committee for Undergraduate Advisor (Summer 2015)
Hiring Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in Poetry
(Summer 2015)
Hiring Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Nonfiction
(Summer 2015)
Hiring Committee for Assistant Professor of Poetry
(Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Hiring Committee for Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction
(Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Curriculum Committee (Fall 2015-Spring2016)
Personnel Committee (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Graduate Committee (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Teaching and Administrative Service in Creative Writing at UNC Charlotte:
Directed Graduate Student Creative Writing Projects and Thesis Work in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing in the MA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing Program
Creative Writing Coordinator, 2010-2014
University Committees at UNC Charlotte:
Chair, Faculty Employment Status Committee (FESC), Fall 2010-Spring 2012
Member, Faculty Employment Status Committee (FESC),
Fall 2009-Spring 2010
College Committees at UNC Charlotte:
Served on Chair Search Committee for English Department, Spring 2007
Department Committees at UNC Charlotte:
Chair of Awards Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2012
Served on Advisory, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Served on Graduate Subcommittee on PhD Feasibility Study, Fall 2009-Spring 2010
Served on Undergraduate Committee, Fall 2009-Spring 2010,
Spring 2008, and Fall 2004-Spring 2005
Served on search and hiring committee for tenure-track Pre-1900
African American Literature (AFAM) position, Fall 2008
Served on Awards Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 and Spring 2008
Served on Faculty Development Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Served on Rhetoric and Writing Program Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
Served on Planning and Assessment Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
University Service at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte:
Faculty Advisor and Sponsor, UNC Charlotte Beta Sigma Chapter, Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honors Society, 2012-2014
Faculty Advisor for UNCC Student Organization, “In Medias Res,”
student organization for fiction writers, 2008-2009
Faculty Organizer UNCC WIPS (Works in Progress Series),
Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Professional Service (Readings, Conference Presentations, and Invited Talks):
2018 &NOW Conference, University of Notre Dame, Panel Presenter and Moderator for “We, Too: Fiction Writers Reclaiming Violence Under a Hostile Political Regime” with Sarah Blackman, Jennifer N. Fink, and Courtney E. Morgan, October 7, 2018
2018 &NOW Conference, University of Notre Dame, “An FC2 Reading,” October 6, 2018
Fiction Reading: Distinguished Visiting Writers Series co-sponsored by
the Women and Gender Studies Program featured for Women's History Month at Pittsburg State University (KS)
March 29, 2018
AWP 2018, Tampa, Panel: “Still in the Trenches: Gender, Race, and Class in Creative Writing.” (Jennifer Kwon Dobbs Kwon Dobbs, Taiyon Coleman, Lisa Lewis, Aimee Parkison, Sagirah Shahid) Room 23, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor, March 9, 2018.
FC2 Offsite Flash Reading, Foundation Coffee, 1607 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602, AWP 2018
“Finishing Each Other’s Sentences: A Reading of Collaborative Writers,” AWP Tampa Offsite Reading, 2018
Fiction Reading for Visiting Writers Series, Northwest Missouri State University, Sept. 14, 2017.
CWA Fiction Reading from Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, OSU Edmon Low Library, March 20, 2017.
“An Unfinished Conversation: Gender and Creative Writing,”
AWP Washington, DC, Panel Presentation, Feb. 10, 2017.
FC2 AWP Offsite Flash Reading, Foundry Gallery, 2118 St NW, Washington, DC, Feb.10, 2017.
“A Finished Conversation? Gendered Cultures of Creative Writing,”
AWP Panel with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Lisa Lewis, Lisa Lee,
and Camille Rankine. April 1, 2016. AWP, Los Angeles
Fiction Reading at Tennessee Tech University, April 14, 2016
Fiction Reading at Cameron University, Lawton, OK. March 25, 2016
Fiction Reading at University of Central Oklahoma, Sept. 22, 2015
Fiction Reading Presentation from The Petals of Your Eyes at the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival at the Chautauqua Institute in the historic Athenaeum Hotel. (co-reading with Tony Hoagland, poet), June 2015
“Women Writing Violence” (panel presentation): AWP Conference 2014
“The Wreckage of Reason: Contemporary Experimental Prose by Women Writers” (panel presentation): AWP Conference 2014
This Land Magazine Summer Fiction Launch Reading and Discussion, K-OSU KOSU-Oklahoma City, 726 W. Sheridan Ave., Aug 15, 2014
OSU Creative Writers Association Fiction Reading at the OSU Museum of Art Oct. 16, 2014
AWP 2014, Panelist and Moderator of Official Conference Events: “Women Writing Violence” and “The Wreckage of Reason: Contemporary Experimental Prose by Women Writers”
Personally Speaking Creative-Writing Presentation and Fiction Reading at UNC Charlotte, Nov. 13, 2013
Fiction Reading and Community Workshop at Monroe Community College Visiting Writers Series, Nov. 7-8, 2013
Fiction Reading at Penn State Erie, Brehrend, Creative Writing Reading Series, March 28, 2012
Keynote Address, “Deathless Love,” Carolina Emerging Scholars Conference, University of South Carolina, Lancaster, May 18, 2012
New Cadence “Men Undressed” Reading, Oct 16, 2011
Montana Festival of the Book, 2010 – Poetry Reading
Sonnet Slam Judge, Missoula Montana, Nov. 2010
Featured Reader for “Short Story Writers Panel” at “A Tribute to Novello,” Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Oct. 2, 2010
Charlotte Literary Festival – Panel Moderator and Presenter: “Creating Characters in Short Fiction, Novels, and Persona Poems,” Presenter and Panel Moderator, Sept. 2010
Niner Book Club Reading, UNCC Bookstore, Sept. 2010
Book Signing Showcase at the UNCC Student Union, August 26, 2009
“Short Narratives: A Fiction Reading.” Keynote presentation for the Opening Session of UNCC’s Uptown Recruiting Fair. March 27, 2009.
Video Interview with Debra Di Blasi taped on location at the April 2008 &NOW Festival of Innovative Literature and Art, in Orange, California. (Made possible by a grant from the Arts Council of Greater Metropolitan Kansas City.) Produced by Jaded Ibis Productions (http://jadedibisproductions.com)
“Intuition” presented for the “Going Commando: Contemporary Experimental Women Writers Panel,” &NOW Conference, 2008, Chapman University, Orange, CA
“Necklace of Names” and “The Secret Daughter” presented for Starcherone Books Authors Panel, &NOW Conference, 2008, Chapman University, Orange, CA
“Fiction and Poetry: A Selection from Children of the Gated Garden,” Step Across This Line, EGSA Conference 2008, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“The Future of Fiction ~ Starcherone Books Reading at KGB Bar,” an AWP Off-Site Event at KGB Bar 85 E. 4th St NYC, Feb. 2, 2008.
“Warnings.” Medaille College’s Write Thing Reading Series. Buffalo, NY. Oct. 2007.
“Van Windows.” Emrys Reading Room Series. The Handlebar. Greenville, SC. April 2006.
“Dummy.” & NOW: A Festival of Innovative Writing and Art. Lake Forest College. Lake Forest, IL. April 2006.
“Where I Live.” Associated Writing Programs “A Reading from the
Authors of Starcherone Books.” AWP Austin Convention Center Bookfair Amphitheater 1st Floor. Austin, TX. March 2006.
“The Listener.” The PP/FF Mega-Reading at AWP. Austin, TX. March 2006.
“Blue Train Summer.” English Department. Hobart and Williams Smith
Colleges. Geneva, NY. April 2005.
“The Glass Girl” and “The Listener.” UNCC English Department’s Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society. Spring 2005.
“Van Windows.” CLMP’s Independent Fiction Showcase at The Mercantile Library. New York, NY. October 2004.
“Baroness with Strange Eyes.” The Artbar in Charlotte, NC. Fall 2004.
“Warnings.” The Artbar in Charlotte, NC. Late Fall 2004.
“Van Windows.” The National Arts Club “Night of New Voices.” National Arts Club; 15 Gramercy Park South; New York, NY 10003. May 2004.
“Blue Train Summer” Medaille College’s “Write Thing” Reading Series. Buffalo, NY. Summer 2004.
“Van Windows.” Medaille College Buffalo Indie Lit Luau, Talking Leaves Book Store. Buffalo, NY. Spring 2004.
“Textures.” Cornell University’s The Temple of Zeus Reading Series, Goldwin Smith Hall. Spring 2004.
“Blue Train Summer.” Cornell University English Department’s “The Lounge Hour” Reading Series. Goldwin Smith Hall; Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. March 2004.
“Van Windows.” Starcherone Books Pre-Publication reading for its 2003 contest winner at the AWP Webdelsol Reading, Rain Dog Cafe, 408 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL. March 2004.
“Van Windows.” Writers at Work Conference Fellowship Winners Reading. Park City, UT. Summer 2003.
“From The Glass Beads, a Novel.” MFA Final Reading. Cornell University. May 2002.
Professional Service (Advisory, Editorial, Consulting, and Reviewing):
Peer Reviewer for University of Missouri Research Board, 2016 & 2017.
Reviewer for American Book Review, 2012-present.
Fiction Faculty Member, Chautauqua Writers’ Festival. June 2015.
Visiting Faculty at the British Council’s International Creative Writing Summer School in Athens, Greece. June 2014.
Reviewer for Creative Writers Artists Grants, American Antiquarian Society, 2014.
Starcherone Press Advisory Board Member (Literary Nonprofit),
2005-2010
Sanskrit Magazine, Literary Juror, 2006 and 2008-2014
Volunteer Mentor for Cabarrus County Schools’ Graduation Project –
High School Mentor in Creative Writing/Poetry, Spring 2008
Explorations: State of NC Undergraduate Research Journal,
Faculty Reviewer, 2006
Featured Presenter at East Mecklenburg High School Charity Fundraising Event sponsored by the high school Creative Writing Club, December 2005
Freelance Proofreader, St. Martins Press, NYC, 2003-2004
Assistant Editor, Epoch magazine, Fall 2000-Spring 2001
Fiction Editor, Papyrus, Oklahoma State University’s undergraduate literary magazine, 1998-1999
Art Editor, Papyrus, Oklahoma State University’s undergraduate literary magazine, 1996-1997
Vice President, Creative Writer’s Association, Oklahoma State University, 1998-1999
Professional Memberships:
Associated Writing Programs (AWP), Member, 2004-present