Aimee Parkison
1976
The oldest of four children, Aimee Parkison was born in Durant, Oklahoma. She currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize. When she’s not reading, writing, playing surrealist word games, daydreaming, journaling, or teaching, she’s usually hanging out at local coffee shops with her husband Abelardo, playing video games, spending time with her seven cats, or enjoying a glass of red wine. Parkison writes fiction and poetry. She has an MFA from Cornell University and is
