Faculty Profile

Aimee Parkison, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of English

Education

• M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2002.
• B.A. with honors in English, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK., 2000.

Areas of Interest
Short stories, novels, prose poems, adaptations, and scripts...lyrical and symbolic writing in all its forms as well as the politics of narrative – including traditional and experimental works, and the blurred boundary between literary fiction and nonfiction. Parkison has writing forthcoming from Feminist Studies, The Literary Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review.

Selected Publications

Book:

• Woman with Dark Horses.  Starcherone Press; Buffalo, NY.  2004.

Fiction in Literary Magazines:

• “The Bishop’s Daughter.”  Marginalia.  Issue 3.2 (Fall 2007): 82-84.
• “Shrike.” The Seattle Review.  Vol. XXIX: Number 1, 2007: 175-183.
• “Chains.” Fugue.  Vol. 31. Summer-Fall 2006: 74-78.
• “Dummy.” Mississippi Review. Vol 34: Numbers 1-2: 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” and “Where I Live.” Santa Monica Review. Vol. 17.2 (Fall 2005): 34-39.
• “Blue Train Summer.” River City Vol. 24.1 (Winter 2004): 59-66.
• “Van Windows.” Quarterly West Vol. 57 (Winter 2004): 10-16.
• “Warnings.” North American Review Vol. 289 No. 3-4 (May-Aug. 2004): 3-8.
• “Textures.”  River City Vol. 23 No. 1 (Winter 2003): 126-134.
• “Collecting.” Harpur Palate Vol. 3.1 (Summer 2003): 9-24.
• “The Glass Girl” and “The Listener.”  Denver Quarterly Vol. 38.1 (Spring 2003): 79-80.
• “Corolla.” American Literary Review Vol. 13 No. 2 (Fall 2002): 100-114.
• “Smile, That’s Why He Loves Her.”  Fiction International Vol. 34, “Madness II,” (2001): 121-126.
• “The Upstairs Album.” Crab Orchard Review Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2001): 116-129.
• “Baroness with Strange Eyes.”  Other Voices Vol. 14 No. 35 (Fall/Winter 2001): 1-8.

Poetry in Literary Magazines:

• “In the Aquarium.” California Quarterly (California State Poetry Society).  Vol. 33, No. 4, 2007: 32.
• “Ashes to Ashes.” The Texas Review.  Vol. 27, No. 1-2, S/S, 2006: 110-116.
• “Hollow Wall,” “First Fantasy,” and “Spinning Light.”  Mochila Review.  Vol. 8, 2006: 90-96.

Writing Selected for Anthology:

• “The Glass Girl” and “The Listener.”  PP/FF, an anthology. Peter Connors, Editor.  Starcherone Press, 2006: 165, 231. 
• “Intuition.” (forthcoming)  Wreckage of Reason: Anthology of XXPERIMENTAL WOMEN WRITERS: Writing in the 21st Century.  Spuyten Duyvil Press.

Online Publications:

• Web Del Sol Online Chapbook http://www.webdelsol.com/LITARTS/Aimee_Parkison/wds.htm
• “Allison’s Idea” – Tarpaulin Sky, http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Fall03/APAllison.htm
• “She Left the River” – Bath House.
• “What Happened with Gilbert That Night” – Web Conjunctions, http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/parkis.htm

Grants:

• Christopher Isherwood Foundation/ James C. McCormick Fellowship
• Puffin Foundation Grant

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Creative Writing – Engl. 2126
• Writing About Literature – Engl. 2100
• Writing About Poetry – Engl. 2104
• Film Criticism – Engl. 2090
• Screenwriting – Engl. 3050
• Gothic Literature – Engl. 3050
• Writing Fiction – Engl. 4203

Graduate Courses Taught:

• Writing Fiction – Engl. 5203
• English 6070 Graduate Fiction Workshops – “Fiction Writing,” “True Stories,” “Writing the Short Novel,” and “Screenwriting for Fiction Writers”

Awards:

• Writers at Work Fellowship in Fiction, 2003
• “Blue Train Summer” short-listed under “Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2004” in the Best American Mystery Stories 2005 anthology
• First Place, North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize
• First Place, Starcherone Press 2003 Fiction Prize for Woman with Dark Horses
• Jack Dyer Fiction Prize from Crab Orchard Review, 2001
• First Place in a contest for emerging writers on the subject of madness from Fiction International, 2001.