Aimee Parkinson

author of "Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman"

January 8, 2018

Aimee Parkison is the author of “Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman,” winner of the Fiction Collective Two Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, published in 2017 by FC2/University of Alabama Press. Her other works include “Woman with Dark Horses,” “The Innocent Party” and “The Petals of Your Eyes.” Parkison's fiction has won numerous awards and fellowships, including a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from Fiction Collective Two, the Kurt Vonnegut Prize from North American Review, the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, the Jack Dyer Prize from Crab Orchard Review, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation Fellowship, and an American Antiquarian Society Creative Artists Fellowship. Parkison is an Associate Professor of Fiction Writing at OSU and the Director of the Creative Writing Program.

Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. A darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in “Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman,” a seductively poetic story collection of unusual brilliance and rare humor. As Stephen Graham Jones notes in his foreword to this prize-winning collection, “The best books . . . fold you into a darkness sparkling with life. They lock you in the refrigerator but they also pipe in some music that never repeats, and when the door starts to open, you cling tight to it, so you can have just a few minutes more. This book, it’ll be over far too fast for you, yes. But even were it five times as thick as it is now, it would still be too short. Remember, though, the best books, they’re loops. They never stop. This one still hasn’t, for me.”

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2018-honorees/aimee-parkinson

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