Aimee Parkison

Aimee Parkison is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. She has taught creative writing at a number of universities, including Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Oklahoma State University.

Parkison earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature/Letters from Oklahoma State University in 2000, where she was Art Editor and Fiction Editor of Papyrus, the undergraduate literary magazine. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University in 2002, and taught there as a lecturer of Creative Writing from September 2002 to May 2004.

Parkison worked as an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she taught Creative Writing, including fiction, poetry, and screenwriting. Parkison was the Creative Writing Coordinator of the English Department the faculty sponsor and chapter adviser for the UNC-C Sigma Tau Delta, Beta Sigma Chapter.

Parkison became an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing-Fiction at Oklahoma State University in May 2014.

Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize as well as the first annual Starcherone Fiction Prize, Parkison is the author of three short story collections and one novel. Parkison’s prose and poetry have appeared in literary magazines, anthologies, and academic journals. Her short story collection, Woman With the Dark Horses (2004), was selected by Cris Mazza for the first annual Starcherone Prize. Parkison's second short story collection, The Innocent Party, was published by BOA Editions in 2012.

Her fourth book, a story collection entitled Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, was published by FC2 in 2017 and won the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.

She was awarded a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in Prose Writing and a Hearst Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society Her most recent short poetic novel called The Petals of Your Eyes, about kidnapped girls who become actors in a secret theater was published in May 2014.

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