Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Born (1969-06-28) June 28, 1969 (age 54)
United States
OccupationAuthor, writer
EducationUniversity of California, San Diego
University of California, Irvine (MFA)
GenreFiction, short story

Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards.

Biography

Born to a

the Brothers Grimm and Anne Sexton as influences on her writing. A native of Los Angeles, Bender is a close friend of fellow UCI alumna Alice Sebold. Her sister is novelist and short story writer Karen Bender.[2]

Her first book was The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a collection of short stories, published in 1998. The book was chosen as a

New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and spent seven weeks on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. Her novel An Invisible Sign of My Own was published in 2000, and was named as a Los Angeles Times Pick of the Year. In 2005 she published another collection of short stories, Willful Creatures, which was nominated by The Believer magazine – owned by McSweeney's — as one of the Best Books of the Year. Her novella The Third Elevator was published in 2009 by Madras Press. Her novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake was published in 2010 by Doubleday
.

Bender has received two

James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 2005. Her short story, Faces was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award
finalist. In 2009 Bender became the sitting judge for the Flatmancrooked Writing Prize, a writing award from Flatmancrooked Publishing for new short fiction.

Bender's works have also been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, Opium Magazine, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, The Coffin Factory, and several anthologies. She has also been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts.[3]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Pfefferman, Naomi (September 14, 2006). "So many authors, so little time". Jewish Journal. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  2. ^ Berry, Harrison (Mar 10, 2017). "Bender Sisters Discuss Ambiguity of Cats, Writing for Fangoria and Empathy at Egyptian Theatre." Boise Weekly. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  3. ^ Aimee Bender's Website

External links

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