Aimee Parkison is a fiction writer and poet living in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A William Randolph Hearst Creative Artist Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, Parkison is currently researching a historical novel involving wounded Civil War veterans, spiritualism, parlor games, and courtship in Victorian America. Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize from North American Review. Parkison has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her first book, Woman with Dark Horses, won the first annual Starcherone Fiction Prize and was published by Starcherone in 2004. Her second story collection, The Innocent Party, was published by BOA Editions' American Reader Series (2012). Parkison's work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has won several awards given by literary magazines, including a prize from Fiction International for emerging writers on the subject of madness, the Jack Dyer Fiction Prize from Crab Orchard Review, and a prize from The Literary Review. Her stories and poems have appeared in the anthologies Men Undressed: Female Writers and the Male Sexual Experience, I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, and Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Experimental Prose by Women Writers. In addition, Parkison's writing has been published by numerous literary magazines, including Hayden's Ferry Review, So to Speak, Nimrod, Unstuck, The Literary Review, Feminist Studies, Mississippi Review, North American Review, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, Santa Monica Review, Other Voices, Crab Orchard Review, Fiction International, Seattle Review, Lake Effect, and Denver Quarterly. More information about Aimee Parkison's work can be found at www.aimeeparkison.com.
Highly recommended for readers on the edge.
- Library Journal A fairy tale so harrowing it reads like a screen
memory -- so harrowing it must be true.
- Joyelle McSweeney, The Brooklyn Rail A darkly beautiful, surreal
novel about children trapped in an obscure sex trade.
- Shelf Awareness In the rippling ripeness of The Petals of Your
Eyes, Aimee Parkison collects the high-gloss tropic tropes of
richly ruined Romanticism. The effect is beyond the wild blue
yonder, sublimely sublime, as if Mr. Poe himself had made it and
was streaming back the searing steam-punked celestial.
- Michael Martone Parkison won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative
Fiction in 2004, and one can see why. Her new novel opens,
"Captured girls in cabinets with curiosities. One is my sister, and
the other my lover." The concept is boldly creepy, the language
eerily elegant, and the result not surreal entertainment but a
pointed look at how the helpless, particularly women, are used and
abused.
- Library Journal Elegant, lyrical, and beautifully written, a
remarkable book about people trapped in a slave trade, surviving by
making ritualized sense of what's happening. Like Scott Bradfield's
The People Who Watched Her Pass By or Lydia Millet's My Happy Life,
The Petals of Your Eyes reveals an imperfectly understood suffering
that transforms into something else. - Brian Evenson. author of
Immobility and Windeye Like a goddaughter of Angela Carter,
Parkison builds this delirious poem-in-prose carefully, making a
world of power-madness, melancholy, puppets, and vines. Read it for
its erotic prose and lyrical weirdness! - Stacey Levine, author of
The Girl with Brown Fur There is much to be said for the violence
of beauty and the beauty of violence. Let it be said here that it
was said here. And that this will go on saying. as long as there is
this writing. - Vanessa Place, author of Dies: A Sentence
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