Amelia Gray

Amelia Gray
Born	(1982-08-17) August 17, 1982 Tucson, Arizona United States
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Arizona State University (B.A., English Literature, 2004) Texas State University (M.F.A., 2007)
Period	2009–
Website
www.ameliagray.com

Amelia Gray (born August 17, 1982) is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of AM/PM (Featherproof Books), Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two), THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) coming April 2015. In 2012, Gray was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.^[1]

The New York Times called Gray's stories “leaps of faith, brave excursions into the realms of the unreal.”^[2] while in the Los Angeles Times her style was defined as “akin to the alternately seething and absurd moods of David Lynch and Cronenberg.”^[3] Of THREATS, NPR said "Amelia Gray's psychological thriller takes us to the brink between reality and delusion." ^[4]

Bibliography

Novels

• THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)

Short Story Collections

• AM/PM (Featherproof Books, 2009)
• Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two, 2010)
• Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)

Other Short Stories

• "Labyrinth" ^[5]
• “How He Felt”^[6]
• “Device”^[7]
• “The Swan as Metaphor for Love”^[8]
• “These Are the Fables”^[9]

Awards and honors

Winner:

• 2010: Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award

Nominated:

• 2008: Amanda Davis Highwire shortlist
• 2008: DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction finalist^[10]
• 2012: Dylan Thomas University of Wales Prize longlist^[11]
• 2012: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction shortlist^[1]

External links

• Official website
• Goodreads page
• "Everything Turns to Fire," a review of Museum of the Weird, The New York Times, Oct 15, 2010
• "The Future of American Fiction: An Interview with Amelia Gray", Flavorwire, Jun 12, 2012
• "Murky 'Threats' Will Get Inside Your Head," a review of THREATS, NPR, Mar 8, 2012

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