The College of

Arts and Sciences

Aimee Parkison

Professor

Address: 109C Morrill
Phone: 405-744-1470
Message: 405-744-9474
E-mail: aimee@okstate.edu
Website:www.aimeeparkison.com

MFA, Cornell University

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Fiction Writing

• Experimental Prose

• Women’s and Gender Studies

Recent Courses Taught

• Fiction Writing (ENGL 3030)

• Advanced Fiction Writing (ENGL 4630)

• Seminar in Fiction Writing ENGL 5730)

• Crafts and Forms of Prose: Advanced Creative Project (ENGL 5763)

• Masters Thesis (ENGL 5000) & Doctoral Dissertation (ENGL 6000)

Selected Publications

Books:

• Lethal Conversations (Unbound Editions 2024-2025)

• Disappearing Debutantes (OutPost19 2023)

• Surburban Death Project(Unbound Editions 2022)

• Sister Séance(Kernpunkt Press 2021)

• Girl Zoo co-authored with Carol Guess (FC2/University of Alabama Press 2019)

• Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman (FC2/University of Alabama Press 2017)

• The Petals of Your Eyes(Starcherone/Dzanc 2014)

• The Innocent Party(BOA Editions, Ltd., American Reader Series 2012)

• Woman with Dark Horses(Starcherone 2004)

Selected Journal and Anthology Publications (since 2005)

Fiction in Literary Magazines (Print):

• “Girl in Pink Flower” (with Carol Guess), “Girl in Intelligence Test,” and “Girl in Haircut,”Notre Dame Review(forthcoming)

• “Ducky”—Bellingham Review(forthcoming)

• “Girl in Medical Trials” (with Carol Guess)—Fiction International(forthcoming)

• “Centerfold” (with Carol Guess)–Hotel Amerika,Vol. 17, Spring 2019: 144-45.

• “Girl in Refrigerator” and “Girl in Pictures.” (with Carol Guess)Bennington Review, Issue 6, “Kissing in the Future,” Winter 2018/2019: 289-91.

• “Squirrel Patrol.”Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies,Vol. 49, No. 3, Winter/Dec 2018: 177-182.

• “Three Stories” (“Girl in Ransom Note,” “Girl in White-Washed World,” and “Girl in Woman”) (with Carol Guess)—Western Humanities Review,Vol. 72.1, Spring 2018: 15-20.

• “Lost Girls.” (with Carol Guess). Salt Hill, 2018.

• “Girl in Atrophy” & “Girl in the Silent Room.” (with Carol Guess)The Normal School,Vol 11, Issue 1, Spring 2018: 97-98.

• “Girl in Lighthouse.”Grub Street, Literary and Arts Magazine, Vol. 67, Towson University, 2018: 27-28.

• “Lament in C Minor.”Lake Effect,Vol 22, Spring 2018: 28.

• “Girl in Special Collector’s Edition,” (nominated for Pushcart Prize) “Girl in Your Car” (with Carol Guess), and “Girl in Mansion” (with Carol Guess). The Laurel Review.Vol 50, Issue 2, 2017: 66-67, 102-103, 136-138.

• “Responsibility.” TANKmagazine, Vol. 8, Issue 12, Summer 2017: 96-97.

• “The Tourists,”Five Points, A Journal of Literature and Arts,Georgia State University, Vol. 17, No. 3, “Flash Fiction Issue,” 2016: 72.

• “Lover with Gun in Mouth, or Autopsy After Murder.”Fiction International.Department of English, San Diego State University. Issue 49: “Taboo,” 2016: 28-29.

• “On Flooded Roads.”North American Review, Vol. 301, No. 3. 2016: 25-27.

• “The Candle,” “The Dead Walk After the Rain,” “The Fire Escape.” The Laurel Review, Vol. 49, Issue 1. 2016: 1-3.

• “To See the Hummingbirds as They Fly Through the Trees.”Lake Effect, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Vol. 20, Spring 2016: 11-12.

• "Child of Prayer."Santa Fe Literary Review. 2015: 91-92

• “Amber Leaves.”Lake Effect: Vol. 19, Spring, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. 2015: 43-46.

• “The Dirt Room.”This Land: “The Summer Fiction Issue: A Collection of New Work by Oklahoma Authors.” Vol. 5, Issue 16, 2014: 10; 15.

• “Mouse.”Unstuck.No. 3, 2014: 361-371

• “Paints and Papers.”Lake Effect, Vol. 16, 2012: 156-163.

• “Bodies in the Sand.”Tarpaulin Sky, No. 17, Summer 2011: 113.

• “Lessons from a Sinoloan Beauty Queen.”Dislocate,Issue 7, Winter 2011:70-82.

• “Harassment.” Feminist Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2010: 618-628.

• “Theatrum Insectorum.” Lake Effect.Vol. 14, 2010: 9-18.

• “Locked Doors.” The Literary Review. Winter 2008: 88-102.

• “Vision of Mirrors.”The Tusculum Review. Vol. 4, 2008: 70-72.

• “Offensive Image.”Lake Effect, A Journal of the Literary Arts. Vol. 12, Spring 2008: 60-62.

• “The Bishop’s Daughter.” Marginalia.Issue 3.2 (Fall 2007): 82-84.

• “Shrike.”The Seattle Review.Vol. XXIX: Number 1, 2006: 175-183.

• “Chains.”Fugue. Vol. 31. Summer-Fall 2006: 74-78.

• “Dummy.”Mississippi Review. Vol 34: Numbers 1-2: 2006. 70-82.

• “Murder on the Pasture.”Vox.Vol. 1.2, April 2006: 12-13.

• “Call Me Linda.”Yalobusha Review.Vol. XI, 2006: 70-79.

• “In the Evening.” Santa Monica Review.Vol. 17.2 (Fall 2005): 37-39.

• “Where I Live.”Santa Monica Review.Vol. 17.2 (Fall 2005): 34-36.

Writing Appearing in Translation:

• “La Figlia Dimenticata.” (“The Forgotten Daughter”). Translated into Italian by Elena Lombardi e Caterina Marchioro. Illustrated by Linda Aquaro.L’IRCOCERVO: LA RIVISTA, Numero 1 – Marzo 2019: 48-51.

• “Petali Cadono Sull’Asfalto” (“As Petals Fall on Asphalt Roads”) Translated into Italian by Rachele Salvini,Lunario,July 2019: 37-40.

Writing Selected for Anthologies:

• “As Petals Fall on Asphalt Roads.”Best Small Fictions 2019.(forthcoming)

• “Fishing for Owls.”Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2019.The Saturday Evening Post Society, Saturday Evening Post Editors. Dec. 19, 2018: 26-34.

• “Dirty-Dirty Short Shorts: Imaginary Rebecca, True Nakedness, and The Turtle.”The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing.Megan Milks, Editor. Davis Schneiderman, Series Editor. &NOW Books, Lake Forest College, Illinois, 2015: 255-256.

• “College Downs.”27 Views of Charlotte: The Queen City in Prose and Poetry. Eno Publishers, Hillsborough, NC, 2014: 134-143.

• “Save Her.”Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board, An Anthology of Contemporary XXperimental Women Writers,edited by Nava Renek and Natalie Nuzzo. Spuyten Duyvil, New York City, 2014: 45-48.

• “Imaginary Rebecca,” “True Nakedness,” and “The Turtle.”Dirty: Dirty.Edited by Debra Di Blasi. Jaded Ibis Press, LLC, Seattle, WA, 2013:96-98.

• “Cradled.”Men Undressed: Female Writers and the Male Sexual Experience.Edited by Stacy Bierlein, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Kat Meads. Other Voices Books, Chicago, 2011: 330-343.

• Untitled “. . . knife . . . wound . . . ear . . .”[C.] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology. Edited by Andrew Borgstrom & J.A. Tyler. Mud Luscious Press, 2011: 74.

• “Undocumented.”I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights,an anthology edited by Melissa Kwasny and M.L. Smoker. Lost Horse Press. Sandpoint, Idaho, 2009: 93.

• “Intuition.”Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Experimental Prose by Women Writers.Edited by Nava Renek. Spuytenduyvil Press, 2008: 281-284.

• “The Glass Girl” & “The Listener.”PP/FF, an anthology. Peter Connors, Editor. Starcherone Press, 2006: 165, 231.

Poetry in Literary Magazines:

• “Online Dating.”34th Parallel Magazine: Issue 29, Reality and Fiction, 2015: 20-23.

• “Nestled.”The Cossack Review.Vol. 2. Issue 1, 2014: 38.

• “Goth Girl’s Lullaby.”5AM, 2013.

• “The Creature.”Rattle.Vol. 18, No. 2, 2012: 108.

• “Immigrant Marriage” and “Deportation.”Cimarron Review. Issue 180, 2012: 56-58.

• “Immigration Issues.”PMS (poem memoir story). Number 10, 2010: 28.

• “If Sara Wasn’t Sara.”5AM.Issue # 31, 2010, (Issn: 1046-9826): 10.

• “Former Friends.”Briar Cliff Review,2010: 38.

• “The New Wife.”The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review.Fall 2009. Vol. XIX, No. 3, 2009: 9.

• “Invisible God Swims with Knife.”So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art. Summer/Fall 2008. Vol. 17, No. 2: 39.

• “Necklace of Names.” Hayden’s Ferry Review. Spring/Summer 2008, Issue 42: 51.

• “I Stood in the Shade.”Nimrod International Journal. Spring/Summer 2008, Vol. 51, No. 2: 130.

• “In the Aquarium.”California Quarterly(California State Poetry Society). Vol. 33, No. 4: 32.

• “Ashes to Ashes.”The Texas Review.Vol. 27, No. 1-2, S/S: 110-116.

Nonfiction: Articles, Essays, and Book Reviews:

• “Disruptive Dualism in Flash Fiction, or Night Sky with Stars in Reverse, Introduction by Aimee Parkison, Guest Editor.”New Flash Fiction Review,Issue 17, August 4, 2019.

• “On the Archetypes of the Captivity Narrative: Aimee Parkison on Our Ongoing Literary Fixation with Trapped Women.”Lit Hub,Craft and Criticism. March 7, 2019.

• “If My Book: Girl Zoo, Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess.”Monkeybicycle, Feb 19, 2019:

• “The Delicious Unease of a Lesser Day,”a review of Andrea Scrima’s A Lesser Day (Spuyten Duyvil),The Brooklyn Rail,Sept. 4, 2018.

• “Coming Alive,” a review of Courtney E. Morgan’s The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman (FC2),American Book Review,Vol. 38, No. 5: July/Aug 2017: 22.

• “Mood Swing Ring,” review of Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack (University of Chicago) by Mary Cappello.American Book Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Nov/Dec 2016: 23.

• “Women Writing Violence” (essay)—AWP’s The Writers’ Chronicle magazine,Vol. 49, No. 2, Oct/Nov. 2016: 110-120.

• “Writing a Story from Black-and-White Photographs.”North American Review, June 28, 2016:

• “Self-Portrait of the Poet,” a review of Jessica Jacob’sPelvis with a Distance(White Pine Press). American Book Review, Vol. 37, Number 2. Jan/Feb 2016: 29.

• “Flash Fiction: Saying the Unsayable.”Free Word(Free Word Center in London, Supported by Arts Council England), Feb. 6, 2016:

• “The Wreckage of Reason: Women Writers of Contemporary Experimental Prose.” (essay)AWP’s The Writers’ Chronicle magazine, Vol. 48, No. 2, Oct/Nov. 2015: 88-99.

• "Dark Web Stories." (article)Statemagazine, OSU, Fall, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2015: 46-47.

• “The Secret Sharer,” a review of Nickole Brown’sFanny Says.American Book Review(BOA). “Women Unbound: Feature.” Volume 36, Number 4, May/June 2015: 11

• “All the Pretty Things;” a review ofThe Beautiful Anthology, Elizabeth Collins, editor. TNB Books.American Book Review.Vol. 33, No. 5, 2012: 20.

Online Fiction Publications:

• “Three Flash Fictions by Aimee Parkison.”(“I File His Fangs,” “Just in Case Her Children Quit Playing Video Games,” “When Your Rebound Backfires like a Rubber Band Stretched Too Tight”).StatoRec (Statement of Record).June 20, 2019.

• “What Goes on Near the Water.”Big Other. February 19, 2019.

• “Girl in Drain.”(with Carol Guess).Winter Tangerine:2019.

• “Joe and Irish.”Savoy Operetta, Issue 1. January 14, 2019.

• “A Trail Through Woods”—The Collagist,Issue 99. October 2018.

• “Girls in Bars.”New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 14. August 2018.

• “As Petals Fall on Asphalt Roads” & “The Forgotten Daughter.”The Adroit Journal,Issue 25. 2018.

• “Girl in Knots,” (co-authored with Carol Guess).Necessary Fiction.Feb. 28, 2018.

• “Girl in Glass.”Monkeybicycle,Jan. 12, 2018.

• “Girls in Windows.”(co-authored with Carol Guess)Monkeybicycle,Jan. 5, 2018.

• “Girl in Dog House”(co-authored with Carol Guess).New Delta Review. 2017. (nominated for Pushcart Prize)

• “The Necklace Eater.”Tupelo Quarterly,Oct. 14, 2017.

• “Girl in Finger Web.”Glassworks,Rowan University. Sept. 1, 2017.

• “Girl in Cloud.”(co-authored with Carol Guess),Diagram,17.6, 2017.

• “Girl in Clock”(co-authored with Carol Guess),Quarterly West.2017.

• “The Tourists” (reprint)—Great Jones Street.Nov. 2017.

• “What Happened with Gilbert that Night” (reprint)—Great Jones Street.Nov. 2017.

• “Code Violations” (reprint)—Great Jones Street.Nov. 2017.

• “Code Violations” and “The Casting Director.”The Collagist.January 2016.

• “Snow in Thunder,”“The Self and Others,”“Follow Me Home,” and “The Lost Sea.”Atticus Review. 2015.

• “Spider Box” –Plinth. 2014.

• “Birds Who Look into Mirrors.”“Birds Who Look into Mirrors.”The Nervous Breakdown. 2013.

• “Theater of Cruelty.”The Rumpus. 2012.

• “The Creature.”RattleOnline. 2012.

Awards & Honors

• OSU Humanities Arts and Design (HAD) Grant

• Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from Fiction Collective Two

• William Faulkner Literary Competition Award for the Novel

• Christopher Isherwood Fellowship

• Kurt Vonnegut Prize fromNorth American Review

• Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction

• Jack Dyer Prize fromCrab Orchard Review

• North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship

• Writers at Work Fellowship

• Charles Angoff Award fromThe Literary Review

• Puffin Foundation Fellowship

• American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Creative Artist Fellowship

Professional Appointments

• FC2Board of Directors, 2019-present

• Guest Editor,New Flash Fiction Review

• Frontier Mosaic,Faculty Advisor