Aimee Parkison

Co-Author of "Girl Zoo"

February 12, 2020

Aimee Parkison holds a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University and is the author of five books of fiction. Her most recent book, "Girl Zoo," is a collaborative experimental story collection co-authored with Carol Guess. Parkison’s fourth book, "Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman," won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize and was named one of Brooklyn Rails’ Best Books of 2017. Parkison writes to explore voices and characters, opening doors to unusual journeys through language. Parkison is widely published and known for revisionist approaches to narrative. Her fiction has won numerous awards including: a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, 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 William Randolph Hearst Creative Artists Fellowship.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2020-honorees/aimee-parkison

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