Aimee
Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work
Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize.
Parkison writes and publishes fiction and poetry. She has an MFA
from Cornell University and is an Associate Professor
of English at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches creative
writing. Her first story collection, Woman
withDark Horses, won the
first annual Starcherone Fiction Prize and was published in 2004. Parkison’s work has been nominated for
a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in or is forthcoming from Hayden’s Ferry Review, So to Speak, Nimrod,
Tarpaulin Sky, The Literary Review, Feminist Studies, Mississippi Review, North
American Review, Quarterly West, Santa Monica Review, Other Voices, Crab
Orchard Review, Fiction International, Seattle Review, and Denver Quarterly. She is currently working on a novel.
