Aimee Parkison

Co-Author of "Girl Zoo"

January 15, 2021

Aimee Parkison has published several books of fiction and has won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Parkison writes to explore voices and open doors to unusual journeys through language. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, in translation and in the Best Small Fictions anthology series. A Professor of English at OSU, Parkison serves on the FC2 Board of Directors. Her fiction has won 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, an American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Creative Artists Fellowship and a William Faulkner Literary Competition Prize for the Novel. More information available at www.aimeeparkison.com

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Last Updated: 28 January 2021