Amelia Gray
Amelia Gray | |
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| Born | August 17, 1982 Tucson, Arizona, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Arizona State University (BA, English Literature, 2004) Texas State University (MFA, 2007) |
| Period | 2009– |
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Amelia Gray (born August 17, 1982) is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of AM/PM (Featherproof Books), Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two), THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In 2012, Gray was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[1]
The New York Times called Gray's stories "leaps of faith, brave excursions into the realms of the unreal."[2] while in the Los Angeles Times her style was defined as “akin to the alternately seething and absurd moods of David Lynch and Cronenberg.”[3] Of THREATS, NPR said "Amelia Gray's psychological thriller takes us to the brink between reality and delusion." [4]
Bibliography
Novels
- THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
- Isadora (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)[5]
Short story collections
- AM/PM (Featherproof Books, 2009)
- Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two, 2010)
- Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
Other short stories
- "Labyrinth"[6]
- "How He Felt"[7]
- "Device"[8]
- "The Swan as Metaphor for Love"[9]
- "These Are the Fables"[10]
- "The Inheritance"[11]
Awards and honors
Winner:
- 2010: Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award
- 2016: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award[12]
Nominated:
- 2008: Amanda Davis Highwire shortlist
- 2008: DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction finalist[13]
- 2012: Dylan Thomas University of Wales Prize longlist[14]
- 2012: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction shortlist[1]
- 2016: Shirley Jackson Prize for Fiction (single author collection)[15]
External links
References
- ^ a b 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists
- ^ Lennon, J. Robert. "Everything Turns to Fire", The New York Times, New York, 15 October 2010. Retrieved on 5 Aug 2014.
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/01/entertainment/la-ca-amelia-gray-20120401
- ^ Smye, Rachel. "Murky 'Threats' Will Get Inside Your Head", NPR, New York, 8 March 2012. Retrieved on 5 Aug 2014.
- ^ http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374279981
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/16/labyrinth-4
- ^ http://wigleaf.com/200909hhf.htm
- ^ http://blogs.saic.edu/dearnavigator/summer2011/amelia-gray-device/
- ^ http://joylandmagazine.com/stories/los_angeles/swan_metaphor_love
- ^ http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/49927424766/clmp-recommends-these-are-the-fables-by-amelia-gray
- ^ https://granta.com/the-inheritance/
- ^ NYPL Young Lions Award
- ^ DIAGRAM 8.3
- ^ Dylan Thomas Prize 2012 longlist
- ^ Shirley Jackson Prize
Categories:
- 1982 births
- Living people
- American surrealist novelists
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- Fabulists
- American surrealist writers
- Magic realism writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- Arizona State University alumni
- Texas State University alumni
- Writers from Tucson, Arizona
- 21st-century women writers
- Women Surrealists
- People from Tucson, Arizona
- 21st-century American short story writers