Aimee Parkison
 
 
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.
Professor of English (Creative Writing—Fiction),
July 2020-present.
Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing—Fiction),
July 2017-June 2020.
Director of Creative Writing Program, January 2017-July 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 Published and Forthcoming (Under Contract):
 
Sister Séance, awarded a William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Creative Artist Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society
and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship--
Kernpunkt Press 2021. (forthcoming, under contract Oct 2021, 225 pages)
 
The Ambassador Owl.
(story collection)
Unbound Editions 2022. (forthcoming, under contract, 150 pages)
 
Disappearing Debutantes. 
(story collection co-authored with Meg Pokrass)
OutPost19 2023.  (forthcoming, under contract, 195 pages)
 
Girl Zoo, Stories. (co-authored with Carol Guess), FC2,
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa: 2019.
 
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: 2014.
 
The Innocent Party.  Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, Ltd., American Readers Series # 17: 2012.
 
Woman with Dark Horses.  Starcherone Press, Buffalo, NY: 2004. [Winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction]
 
            Chapbook:
 
Web Del Sol Electronic Chapbook. 2004.
<http://www.webdelsol.com/LITARTS/Aimee_Parkison/wds.htm>
 
 
            Unpublished Book Manuscripts (Works in Progress):
 
Shabby Mansion (a novel, 360 pages),
winner of the 2019 William Faulkner Literary Competition
Prize for the Novel.
 
Snarls, the Story of a Young Female Serial Killer (novel, 390 pages)
 
 
 
Fiction in Literary Journals (Print) and Forthcoming/Under Contract:
 
 
“The Romingulet” (with Meg Pokrass)--Five Points. (forthcoming 2021)
 
“The Pool Cover”--The Rupture. (forthcoming 2021)
 
“How to Become Another Woman”--The Hong Kong Review (forthcoming 2021)
 
“Scopophobia” –Bending Genres—(forthcoming 2021)
 
“The Renovation”--Lake Effect, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Vol. 24, Spring 2020: 122-123.
 
“The Open Invitation”--Lake Effect, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Vol. 24, Spring 2020:124-132.
 
“The Mushroom Suit”--The Laurel Review, Vol. 52, Issue 2, 2019: 73-84.
 
“Girl in Haircut”--Notre Dame Review, Number 48, Summer/Fall 2019: 189.
 
“Girl in Intelligence Test” --Notre Dame Review, Number 48, Summer/Fall 2019: 188.
 
“Girl in Pink Flower” (with Carol Guess) --Notre Dame Review, Number 48, Summer/Fall 2019: 185-187.
 
"Girl in Medical Trials," (with Carol Guess) Fiction International, "The Body Issue," Issue 52 2019: 84-87.
 
“Centerfold” (with Carol Guess) –Hotel Amerika, Vol. 17, Spring 2019: 144-45.
 
“Girl in Refrigerator.” (with Carol Guess) Bennington Review, Issue 6, “Kissing in the Future,” Winter 2018/2019: 289.
 
“Girl in Pictures.” (with Carol Guess) Bennington Review, Issue 6, “Kissing in the Future,” Winter 2018/2019: 290-91.
 
“Squirrel Patrol.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, Winter/Dec 2018: 177-182.
 
“Three Stories” (“Girl in Ransom Note,” (nominated for Pushcart Prize) “Girl in White-Washed World,” and “Girl in Woman”) (with Carol Guess)--Western Humanities Review, Vol. 72.1, Spring 2018: 15-20.
 
“Lost Girls.” (nominated for Pushcart Prize) (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)
The Laurel Review.  Vol 50, Issue 2, 2017: 66-67.
 
“Girl in Your Car” (with Carol Guess) The Laurel Review.  Vol 50, Issue 2, 2017: 102-103.
 
“Girl in Mansion” (with Carol Guess).  The Laurel Review.  Vol 50, Issue 2, 2017: 102-103.
 
“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 Appearing in Translation:
 
“La Figlia Dimenticata.” (“The Forgotten Daughter”). Translated into Italian by Elena Lombardi e Caterina Marchioro. Illustrated by Linda Aquaro.
L’IRCOCERVO: LA RIVISTA, Numero 1 – Marzo 2019: 48-51.
< https://ilrifugiodellircocervo.com/rivista/> <https://ilrifugiodellircocervo.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/lircocervo.pdf>
 
“Petali Cadono Sull’Asfalto” (“As Petals Fall on Asphalt Roads”).
Translated into Italian by Rachele Salvini, Lunario, July 2019: 37-40.
 
“Ragazza in tenuta da stupor” (“Girl in Rape Kit”) Translated into Italian by Rachele Savini. Yawp: Giornale Di Letterature E Filosofie).
<http://www.letterefilosofia.com/ragazza-in-tenuta-da-stupro-girl-in-rape-kit-aimee-parkison/?fbclid=IwAR32lgUvhwWmxMst1YSOYzP3ns1EW2z1P94BopWeAJ9vK0qu3jm7Pk-v9_A>
 
 
Writing Selected for Anthologies:
 
“Girl in Rape Kit”--Once and For Always—An Anthology of Abuse (forthcoming).
 
“Masks and Guns: Making Masks in America, Southwest Pandemic Panic, and Guns in an Open-Carry State.” (essay, narrative nonfiction, nominated for a Pushcart Prize) Writing the Virus: StatORec, anthology edited by Andrea Scrima and David Dario Winner, OutPost19 San Francisco, 2020: 108-114.
 
 
“Disruptive Dualism in Microfiction, or Night Sky with Stars in Reverse,” an essay on craft.  Best Mircofiction 2020, Edited by Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Michael Martone; Pelekinesis Press, Claremont, California: 2020.
 
“Three Fictions” & “Disappearing Ink.” Big Other Anthology 2020.
<Big Other Anthology 2020 – BIG OTHER>
 
“As Petals Fall on Asphalt Roads.” Best Small Fictions 2019, edited by Nathan Leslie and Rilla Askew. Sonder Press, New York: 291-292.
 
“What Goes on Near the Water.” Big Other Anthology 2019.
<Big Other Anthology 2019 – BIG OTHER>
 
“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 Journals:
 
“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.
 
“Birds Who Look into Mirrors.” The Nervous Breakdown. 2013.
<http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/aparkison/2013/02/birds-who-look-into-mirrors/>
 
“The Creature.” Rattle Online. 2013.
<http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2013/08/the-creature-by-aimee-parkison/>
 
“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.
           
 
Nonfiction: Articles, Essays, and Book Reviews:
 
 
“Masks and Guns: Making Masks in America, Southwest Pandemic Panic, and Guns in an Open-Carry State.” (essay, narrative nonfiction).  StatORec, Statement of Record.  May 2020.
<Masks and Guns | ®┊STAT®REC (statorec.com)>
 
Book Review of Selling the Farm by Debra Di Blasi C & R Press, 2020--The Heavy Feather Review—(forthcoming)
 
“Pearls Inside the Oyster: Three Works of Innovative Fiction.” (review) Rain Taxi, Review of Books, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2019: 10-11.
 
“Personal and Generational,” American Book Review, Volume 41, Number 1, November/December 2019, pp. 19-20.
(Review of Christine Kitano’s Sky Country)
 
“Disruptive Dualism in Flash Fiction, or Night Sky with Stars in Reverse, Introduction by Aimee Parkison, Guest Editor.” New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 17, August 4, 2019.
<http://newflashfiction.com/introduction-by-aimee-parkison-guest-editor/?fbclid=IwAR0Azrm7atwzkpfYjWtXvfdmFOVXXYQ8Dw40SgKZpVgHQ-yt_XStEkqb0P4>
 
“On the Archetypes of the Captivity Narrative: Aimee Parkison on Our Ongoing Literary Fixation with Trapped Women.”  Lit Hub, Craft and Criticism.  March 7, 2019. 
< https://lithub.com/on-the-archetypes-of-the-captivity-narrative/>
 
“If My Book: Girl Zoo, Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess.” Monkeybicycle, Feb 19, 2019.
<http://monkeybicycle.net/if-my-book-girl-zoo-aimee-parkison-and-carol-guess/>
 
“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.
 
“Writing a Story from Black-and-White Photographs.” North American Review, June 28, 2016.
<http://northamericanreview.org/writing-story-black-white-photographs-aimee-parkison/>
 
“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.
 
“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>
 
“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.
 
 
Fiction Online Journal Publications:
 
“Clara Bow”(with Meg Pokrass)--Monkeybicycle.  Jan 29, 2021.
<Clara Bow – MONKEYBICYCLE>
 
 
“Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’” (with Meg Pokrass)--Erotic Review. Dec. 21, 2021.
<Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’ – Erotic Review (ermagazine.com)>
 
“Andrew and Leslie”--Fiction Southeast, featured fiction.  Jan 2021.
<Fiction Southeast – Andrew and Leslie>
 
“Mississippi Android Queen.”--Gone Lawn, a Journal of Literature, Issue 39, Winter Solstice 2020.
<Gone Lawn 39 : Aimee Parkison>
 
“Truckin’” (with Meg Pokrass)--Cleaver, Philadelphia’s International Literary Magazine, Flash Issue 32.  Dec. 18, 2020.
<TRUCKIN’ by Meg Pokrass and Aimee Parkison • Cleaver Magazine>
 
 
“Three Fictions by Aimee Parkison.” (“Rust,” “The Long Run,” & “Fear of Crossroads.) Big Other. Dec. 8, 2020.
<Three Fictions, by Aimee Parkison – BIG OTHER>
 
“Distrubing Animal Facts.” (with Meg Pokrass)--Trampset. Nov 27, 2020.
<Disturbing Animal Facts. by Aimee Parkison and Meg Pokrass | by trampset | trampset>
 
“Disappearing Ink.” (with Meg Pokrass)—Big Other.  Nov. 24, 2020.
<Disappearing Ink – BIG OTHER>
 
 
“Baking a Man.” (with Meg Pokrass) Midway Journal.  Oct. 15, 2020:
<http://midwayjournal.com/5573-2/?fbclid=IwAR249bvBeE_OifLBERYwgn4Af-nPFEw4GCPbU4j2X_hiIMzkkkgtJeAEEKk>
 
 
“Carnival of Shadows.” Ghost Parachute: Oct 1, 2020:
<http://ghostparachute.com/issue/october-2020-issue/carnival-of-shadows/?fbclid=IwAR2KecrV-znJhjIE9jPk9Hj0DCkIpk8fsbTVALoNidc5rxTyis4S8qBdDQQ>
 
 
“New Frontier.” (with Meg Pokrass) New World Writing: 9/07/20202:
<https://newworldwriting.net/meg-pokrass-aimee-parkison-new-frontier/?fbclid=IwAR0x-4XWRiCHWpiurDBlL3K1w4jV0icUHuvxfDNzpsCfW0pDS5bdXbbrNG8>
 
“Other People’s Cars.” (with Meg Pokrass)  Funny Pearls:  Sept. 2020:
<https://funnypearls.com/2020/09/parkison-pokrass/
 
 
“I Saw Me” & “Fetch.” New Flash Fiction Review, Horo-Flash: Gemini, May, 2020:
<http://newflashfiction.com/horo-flash-gemini-aimee-parkison/?fbclid=IwAR2Krewy4wmZOY8F5BlRADVm3LlmISUCoVbQdctRbmiSsr67cWvI28NWys8>
 
 
“Peg.” (inspired by the song “Peg” by Steely Dan) Largehearted Boy: “Flash Dancers: Ekphrastic Singles,” a series (curated by Meg Pokrass) in which authors pair an original work of flash fiction with a song, April 29, 2020.
<http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2020/04/flash_dancers_e_3.html?fbclid=IwAR1I2kyPIZLNRpt_LjbkTPwR2j-xzO-cIEXRWLf1krJKdQSzGpDrOSb8Cr0>
 
 
“Gemma.”--Little Fiction, April 2, 2020:
< https://medium.com/little-fiction-big-truths/gemma-6a689b6e86f7>
 
“Whisper Flowers (nominated for a Pushcart Prize),” The Ilanot Review ( an international journal based in Israel) “Home/Work” Issue, Spring 2020.
<http://www.ilanotreview.com/home-work/whisper-flowers/?fbclid=IwAR1DWaHNZX_XeMx3a6XWDWPcS7QKtVWlySMV8v3AlehZCFIQb64IDRKrhE>
 
“Peg.” New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 20, Surreal Flash Fiction Issue, Feb 2020:
<http://newflashfiction.com/aimee-parkison-2/>
 
“Hey Nineteen.” (inspired by Steely Dan) Largehearted Boy: “Flash Dancers: Ekphrastic Singles,” a series (curated by Meg Pokrass) in which authors pair an original work of flash fiction with a song, Feb 20, 2020.
<http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2020/02/flash_dancers_e_1.html>
 
“The Last Zoo”--Litro USA. Dec 2019.
< The Last Zoo - Litro Magazine USA>
 
“Ducky,” Bellingham Review, Issue 79: November 15, 2019.
<http://bhreview.org/2019/11/15/ducky/>
 
“Three Flash Fictions by Aimee Parkison.” (“I File His Fangs,” “Just in Case Her Children Quit Playing Video Games,” “When Your Rebound Backfires like a Rubber Band Stretched Too Tight”).  StatoRec (Statement of Record). 
June 20, 2019. 
< https://statorec.com/three-flash-fictions-by-aimee-parkison/>
 
“What Goes on Near the Water.” Big Other. 
(nominated for a Pushcart Prize) February 19, 2019.
< https://bigother.com/2019/02/19/fiction-by-aimee-parkison/>
 
“Girl in Drain.” (with Carol Guess). Winter Tangerine: 2019.
<http://www.wintertangerine.com/parkison-guess-girl-in-drain>
 
“Joe and Irish.” Savoy Operetta, Issue 1. January 14, 2019.
<https://savoylitmag.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/joe-and-irish/?fbclid=IwAR2aylx1hdZ2L-sI2L8fTAhdK2gIhLplvzD58y8laA-hzvBUNpr9BaNwEm0>
 
“Three Stories” (with Carol Guess), Western Humanities Review, Spring 2018, Issue 72.1, 2020.
<http://www.westernhumanitiesreview.com/spring-2018-72-1/aimee-parkison-carol-guess-three-stories-2/>
 
“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 and longlisted by Wigleaf).
 
“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.
<http://quarterlywest.press/?p=4265>
 
“The Tourists” (reprint)--Great Jones Street. Nov. 2017.
 
“What Happened with Gilbert that Night” (reprint)--Great Jones Street.
Nov. 2017.
 
“Code Violations” (reprint)--Great Jones Street. Nov. 2017.
 
“Code Violations” (longlisted by Wigleaf) 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>
 
“Theater of Cruelty.”  The Rumpus.  2012.  <http://therumpus.net/2012/03/sunday-rumpus-fiction-theater-of-cruelty/>
 
“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/online/article/aimee-parkison-02-27-1999>
 

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,
two in 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:
 
                        William Faulkner Literary Competition Prize for the Novel, 2019.
                       
                        Finalist, Big Other Book Awards in Fiction, Girl Zoo.
                       
                        Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Whisper Flowers,” 2020.
 
                        Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Masks and Guns,” 2020.
 
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, 1999.
 
First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Contest, 1998.
 
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/>
Girl Zoo
 
 
Big Other and Emerging Writers Network:
Selected as one of the most highly anticipated small press fiction books of 2019.
 
BuzzFeed News:
“18 Books from Smaller Publishers That Deserve Your Attention,” article by Wendy J. Fox. <https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/wendyjfox/indie-press-books-lyz-lenz-godland-book-recommendations?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&ref=mobile_share&fbclid=IwAR0ZZwbst9yBpPAD1OzdEoWOeC0KkK45TqbsWT70wVWyhYfQCoOytl23Nlc>
 
Necessary Fiction:
“Girl Zoo by Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess Reviewed by Kaja Rae Lucas.”  Necessary Fiction, April 1, 2019.
<http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/GirlZoobyAimeeParkisonandCarolGuess>
 
The Brooklyn Rail:
“Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess’s Girl Zoo.” Reviewed by Melanie Odelle.  The Brooklyn Rail, Feb 2019.
<https://brooklynrail.org/2019/02/books/Girl-Zooby-Aimee-Parkison-and-Carol-Guess>
 
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman
           
The Brooklyn Rail:
Named one of the best 25 fiction books of 2017 by The Brooklyn Rail,
“The Rail's Best Books of 2017” by Joseph Salvatore, Books Editor.
<https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/books/Best-25-POETRY-Books-of-2017>
 
Kirkus Review:
<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/aimee-parkison/refrigerated-music-for-a-gleaming-woman/>
 
Necessary Fiction:
<http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/RefrigeratedMusicforaGleamingWomanbyAimeeParkison>
 
 
The Collagist:
<http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2018/2/3/refrigerated-music-for-a-gleaming-woman-by.html>
 
The Brooklyn Rail:
<https://brooklynrail.org/2017/05/books/Deft-Eloquent-Shiversome-and-Timely>
 
The Petals of Your Eyes
 
“Brian Evenson on 6 Novels that Justify Making You Sick to Your Stomach,” A.V. Club Interview by Andrew Paul. (The Petals of Your Eyes is cited along with Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts, Dennis Cooper's The Marbled Swarm, and Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory.) <https://www.avclub.com/brian-evenson-on-6-novels-that-justify-making-you-sick-1798247083>
 
“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://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>
 
 
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.
 
Woman with Dark Horses
 
Review by Mark Tursi, Rain Taxi (print), Vol. 9, No.3, Fall 2004 (#35).
 
 
Interviews (Selected):
 
​ “Serious Play”: An Interview with Carol Guess & Aimee Parkison, co-authors of the story collection GIRL ZOO.” Interview by Dana Diehl.  Heavy Feather Review, July 24, 2019.
<https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2019/07/24/girl-zoo/>
 
“Trapped Inside the Gaze of Strangers”: A Conversation with Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess.” Interview by Andrea Scrima. 3 Quarks Daily, Science Arts Philosophy Politics Literature, July 15, 2019.
<https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/07/trapped-inside-the-gaze-of-strangers-a-conversation-with-aimee-parkison-and-carol-guess.html?fbclid=IwAR2IVzVdp7q4AJ_ekvwW6mrfme4HUhnrqCFNK7YkgeXBT8G_ec_8YOx1sw8>
 
"Interview with Aimee Parkison" by Brandon Hobson. The Believer Logger, Go Forth, Vol. 46.
<https://believermag.com/logger/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:
 
                        Studies in Fiction Writing: Advanced Creative Project (Engl 6730)
Crafts and Forms of Prose: Writing the Bildungsroman (Engl 5760)
Seminar in Fiction Writing: Writing the Short Novel (Engl 5730)
Seminar in Fiction Writing: Story Logic (Engl 5730)
                        Seminar in Fiction Writing: Characterization (Engl 5730)
                        Seminar in Fiction Writing: Imaginative Landscapes (Engl 5730)
                        Seminar in Fiction Writing: Writing 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)
 
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)
 
MFA Thesis Committee Chair, Director, and Advisor (OSU):
Jacob Hicks (fiction, in progress)
Anthony Freeman (fiction, in progress)
Amanda Hays (fiction, Spring 2020)
Johnathan (Drake) Portillo-Swails (fiction, Spring 2020)
Kaila Lancaster (fiction, Spring 2020)
Kevin Phillips (fiction, Fall 2019)
Keith York (fiction, Fall 2019)
Emilie Talent (fiction, Spring 2018)
Maggie Marshall (fiction, Spring 2018)
Jake Brewer (fiction, Spring 2017)
Angela Greenroy (fiction, Spring 2017)
Kyle Hayes (fiction, Spring 2016)
Cannon Roberts (fiction, Spring 2015)
 
MFA Thesis Committee Member (OSU):
David Channell (CNF, in progress)
Jen Hudgens (poetry, Spring 2020)
Roslyn Marshall (CNF, in progress)
Nick Martin (creative nonfiction, Spring 2017)
Kate Williams (poetry, Spring 2017)
Emma Murray (poetry, Spring 2017
Kate Williams (poetry Spring 2017)
Cheryl Kutcher (poetry, Spring 2017
Elizabeth Morgan (fiction, Spring 2016)
Paul Armstrong (poetry, Spring 2016)
Thomas Burnett (fiction, Spring 2016)
Tim Treder (fiction, Spring 2016)
Beth Ann Mock (poetry, Spring 2016)
Thomas Burnett (fiction, Spring 2016)
Andrew Arnold (fiction, Spring 2015)
Kate Strum (fiction, Spring 2015)
 
PhD Dissertation Committee Chair, Director, and Advisor (OSU):
Rachel Klammer (fiction, in progress)
Douglas Koziol (fiction, in progress)
Luke Loftiss (fiction, in progress)
Mark Difruscio (fiction, in progress)
Alex Hughes (fiction, in progress)
            Christopher Linforth (fiction, in progress)
            Rachele Salvini (fiction, in progress)
            Grant Currier (fiction, in progress)
            Sara Gilbert (fiction, in progress)
            Ann Marie Potter (fiction, in progress)
Michael Sloyka (fiction, Spring 2018)
            Alan Blair (fiction, Spring 2017)
            Eduardo Astigarraga (fiction, Spring 2017)
            Ryan Thorpe (creative nonfiction, Spring 2015)
 
PhD Dissertation Committee Member (OSU):
Konstantinos Tzamouranis (poetry, in progress)
Paul Armstrong (poetry, in progress)
Gretchen Vanwormer (CNF, in progress)
Katherine Markey (poetry, Fall 2019)
Jacqueline Alnes (CNF, Spring 2019)
Haesong Kwon (poetry, Spring 2016)
Roger Mullins (fiction, Spring 2015)
Brandon Hobson (fiction, Spring 2015)
 
PhD Dissertation Committee Member:
            Dan Magers, (fiction, 2021, University of Illinois – Chicago)
 
 
PhD Qualifying Examination Committee Member (OSU):
Jacqueline Alnes (CNF, 2019)
Tomie Bitton (CNF, 2019)
Christopher Linforth (fiction, 2019)
Katherine Markey (poetry, 2019)
Michael Sloyka (chair, fiction, 2018)
Dustin McCormick (poetry, 2017)
Aubrey Johnson (poetry, 2016)
Roger Mullins (fiction, 2015)
Brandon Hobson (fiction, 2014)
 
Third Semester Review Committees (PhD) (OSU):
Whitney Kerutis (poetry, 2019)
Sara Gilbert (fiction, chair/advisor, 2019)
Ann Marie Potter (fiction, chair/advisor, 2019)
Grant Currier (fiction, chair/advisor, 2019)
Remigius Recchia (poetry, 2019)
Rachel Klammer (fiction, chair/advisor 2019)
Konstantinos Tzamouranis (poetry, 2019)
Doug Koziol (fiction, chair/advisor, 2019)
 
Practical Poetics and Fictional Rhetoric Committee (OSU):
Chair, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Chair, Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Member, Fall 2014-Spring 2015
 
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)
Kate Phillips (Spring 2016)
James Lee (Spring 2016)
Amanda Hays (Spring 2016)
Ashton Patton (Spring 2015 and Spring 2016)
 
Honors Thesis Advising (OSU):
Adam Glover (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)
Jarrett Cook (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)
Daniel Metroka (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)
Kennedy Essmiller (Fall 2018-Spring 2019)
Preston Phillips (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
Ashton Patton (Fall 2016-Spring 2017)
 
University Workshops and Teaching Training:
 
OSU CAS General Education Teaching Workshop, 2020.
 
Termination Hearing Board Faculty Training, OSU University Legal, Fall 2019-Spring 2022.
 
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 & PROFESSIONALISM
 
National Professional Service:
 
FC2 Board of Directors, Member, July 2019-Present.
 
MA Thesis Examiner (Creative Writing), Rhodes University, South Africa. 2020, 2021.
 
Judge, The Bellingham Review's annual Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, 2020.
 
Guest Editor, New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 17: 2019.
 
Judge, FC2 2019 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest
(selection: The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi).
 
Reviewer for American Book Review, 2012-present.
 
External Reviewer, Kerry Ann Moore, promotion to Assistant Professor, Cumberland University, 2019.
 
External Reviewer, Joanna Ruocco Tenure Case, Wake Forest University, 2018.
 
Peer Reviewer, University of Missouri Research Board, evaluation of faculty grant proposals in fiction writing, 2016 & 2017.
 
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.
 
Peer Reviewer, American Antiquarian Society, evaluation of Creative Writers Artists Grants proposals, 2013.
 
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.
 
 
University, Outreach, and Community Service at Oklahoma State University:
 
Termination Hearing Board, Member, Sept. 2019-present. (3-year term)
 
WFC Research Award Reviewer for OSU Women’s Faculty Council,
2020, 2021.
 
Scholarship Coordinator, OSU Regent’s Ruby N. Courtney Writer's Scholarship, 2015-present.
 
Founding 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 I: June 19-21 2019.
 
OSU Grandparent University Instructor, “Fiction Writing” for Session II: June 27-29 2018.
 
OSU CAS Student Council’s Autumn Arts Gala, Talent Judge
(with Anne-Marie Condacse and Amy Martindale), 2018 & 2019.
 
 
English Department Service at Oklahoma State University:
 
Graduate Studies Committee, Chair, (Fall 2019-Spring 2020.)
 
Director, Creative Writing Program (Spring 2017-Spring 2019)
 
TA Selection Committee, Member (Spring 2017-Spring 2019)
 
Admissions Committee, Member (Spring 2017-Spring 2019)
 
Scholarship Selection Committee, Member (2018)
 
Curriculum Committee, Member and Secretary (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
 
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-Spring 2016)
 
Personnel Committee (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
 
Graduate Studies Committee (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
 
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)
 
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.
 
Teaching and Administrative Service in Creative Writing at UNC Charlotte:
 
Directed Multiple 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.
                        
Coordinator, Creative Writing Program, 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, Awards Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2012.
 
Advisory Committee, Member, Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
 
Graduate Subcommittee on PhD Feasibility Study, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
 
Undergraduate Committee, Fall 2009-Spring 2010,
Spring 2008, and Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
 
Search and Hiring Committee for tenure-track Pre-1900
African American Literature (AFAM) position, Fall 2008.
 
Awards Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 and Spring 2008.
 
Faculty Development Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2007.
 
Rhetoric and Writing Program Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2006.
 
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): 
 
Fiction Reading Presentation, “One-on-One Reading Series,” University of Illinois at Chicago's Program for Writers April 23, 2021.
 
“Masks and Guns.” HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave, New York, NY, 10013) Vimeo Virtual Presentation: #StillHere with StatoRec: Oct, 20 2020:
<https://vimeo.com/468622855?ref=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR0x-4XWRiCHWpiurDBlL3K1w4jV0icUHuvxfDNzpsCfW0pDS5bdXbbrNG8>
 
“New Flash Fiction Review Editors' Reading, May17th, 2020.”  Virtual Event with Al Kratz, Steven John, Audra Kerr Brown, Aimee Parkison, Josh Russell, Robert Shapard, Meg Pokrass:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULqQJh08oGY&feature=youtu.be>
 
"Whisper Flowers." City Art Virtual Reading Series, curated by Joel Long (Salt Lake City, Utah), April 1, 2020:                        <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGOQmhuE4r0>
 
AWP 2020 Panel: “Celebrating Difficult Women: Acceptance and Accessibility in Experimental Prose,” (Moderator and Panelist) #AWP20 in Room 006C, Henry B. González Convention Center, River Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020.
San Antonio, Texas, March 2020.
 
The Laurel Review & Big Muddy SEMO Press AWP Offsite Reading,
Dorcol Distilling + Brewing Company, 1902 S Flores St
San Antonio, TX 78204, Friday, March 6th, 2020
 
Girl Zoo, a Fiction Reading and Presentation at Finch Lane Gallery,
2019-2020 the University of Utah Guest Writers Series, Salt Lake City, Nov. 15, 2019.
 
Girl Zoo interview and reading, creative-writing class visit,
Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s Independent School, Salt Lake City, Utah,
Nov. 16, 2019.
 
Fiction Reading from Girl Zoo, sponsored by OSU CWA, Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room (OSU Edmon Low Library) at 7:30PM, Nov. 21, 2019.
 
“Grotesquing Gender: Deforming Narrative Now,” (with Rebecca Brown, Jennifer Natalya Fink, and Michelle Donahue) &NOW 2019: Points of Convergence, University of Washington Bothell. Sept. 22, 2019.
 
“Difficult Women: Acceptance and Accessibility,” (with Carol Guess, Aurelie Sheehan, Evelyn Hampton, and Bailey Pittenger) &NOW 2019: Points of Convergence, University of Washington Bothell. Sept. 21, 2019.
 
“Fiction Collective Two: Performance & Conversation,”
(with Lance Olsen, Elisabeth Sheffield, Michael Mejia, Carol Guess, Aurelie Sheehan, Darcie Dennigan, and Jennifer Natalya Fink) &NOW 2019: Points of Convergence, University of Washington Bothell. Sept. 20, 2019.
 
AWP Panel 2019: “The Invisible Trenches: Race, Gender and Class in Creative Writing,”
AWP Portland Panel Presentation, Friday, March 29, 2019
A106, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1, 10:30 am to 11:45 am.
 
Fiction Reading from Girl Zoo for “A Night of Literature, 2018 AWP Offsite Reading Sponsored by Adroit, Salt Hill, Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West, and Western Humanities Review.”   March 29, 7-11 PM, The Slide Inn.
 
Fiction Reading from Girl Zoo for “Dorothy/Ellipsis/FC2/Sidebrow AWP Offsite Reading at ADX.” (Art Design Portland), 417 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, March 28, 2019.
 
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 Panel 2018: “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.
 
AWP Panel 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. 
 
AWP Panel 2016: “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.
 
AWP Panel 2014: “Women Writing Violence” (AWP panel, panelist and moderator): AWP Conference 2014, Seattle, Washington.
 
AWP Panel 2014: “The Wreckage of Reason: Contemporary Experimental Prose by Women Writers” (AWP panel, panelist and moderator): AWP Conference 2014, Seattle, Washington.
 
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.                       
                           
Personally Speaking Series: Creative-Writing Presentation and Fiction Reading from The Innocent Party 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.
 
AWP Panel 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 Memberships
 
Associated Writing Programs (AWP), Member, 2004-present.