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 writer. She is the author of the short story collections AM/PM (Featherproof Books), Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two), and Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and the novels THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Isadora (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]
Filmography
Television
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
- 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 American women writers
- Women surrealist artists
- American women screenwriters
- American television writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- Novelists from Arizona
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners