Aimee Parkison earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Cornell University. Her work has won numerous national awards and fellowships, including North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize, and she has published over one hundred works in various journals and anthologies, including The Best Small Fictions. She teaches in the PhD/MFA at Oklahoma State University and is the author of eleven books, including most recently Body of Evidence (Unbound Edition Press), Girl Zoo (Fiction Collective 2), and Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, selected by Stephen Graham Jones for the FC2 Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction.