The Innocent Party

Winner of the Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize, Parkison mixes literary fiction with gritty realities in her second story collection.

About the author

Aimee Parkison: Aimee Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize. Parkison writes and publishes fiction and poetry. She has an MFA from Cornell University and is an Associate Professor of English at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches creative writing. Her first story collection, Woman with Dark Horses, won the first annual Starcherone Fiction Prize and was published in 2004. Parkison's work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in or is forthcoming from Hayden's Ferry Review, So to Speak, Nimrod, Tarpaulin Sky, The Literary Review, Feminist Studies, Mississippi Review, North American Review, Quarterly West, Santa Monica Review, Other Voices, Crab Orchard Review, Fiction International, Seattle Review, and Denver Quarterly.

Product details

• Authors: Aimee Parkison
• Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.05.2012
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781934414866
• ISBN: 978-1-934414-86-6
• Pages: 200
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Dimensions (packing): 13.9 x 20.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 226 g
• Series: American Reader (Paperback) > 17; American Reader (Paperback) > 17; American Reader Series; American Readers; American Readers Series