Amelia Gray
Amelia Gray (born August 17, 1982) is an American writer. She is the author of the short story collections AM/PM (Featherproof Books), Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two), and Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and the novels THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Isadora (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Gray has been shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction[1] and her television writing has been nominated for a WGA Award.
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Born | Tucson, Arizona, U.S. | August 17, 1982
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Nationality | American |
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Period | 2009–present |
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The New York Times called Gray's stories "leaps of faith, brave excursions into the realms of the unreal."[2] while the Los Angeles Times defined her style 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]
Gray is a member of Giving What We Can, a community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.[5]
Bibliography
Novels
- THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
- Isadora (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)[6]
Short story collections
- AM/PM (Featherproof Books, 2009)
- Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two, 2010)
- Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
Filmography
Short films
- "Curated" (dir. Gillian Jacobs) (2018)
- "Waste" (dir. Justine Raczkiewicz) (2017)
Video games
- Telling Lies (2019)
- Immortality (2022)
Awards and honors
Winner
- 2010: Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award
- 2016: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award[14]
Nominated
- 2008: Amanda Davis Highwire shortlist
- 2008: DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction finalist[15]
- 2012: Dylan Thomas University of Wales Prize longlist[16]
- 2012: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction shortlist[1]
- 2016: Shirley Jackson Prize for Fiction (single author collection)[17]
- 2019: WGA Award (Adapted Long Form) with Nick Cuse, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Danielle Henderson, Mauricio Katz, Patrick Somerville, and Caroline Williams[18]
References
- 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists
- Lennon, J. Robert. "Everything Turns to Fire", The New York Times, New York, 15 October 2010. Retrieved on 5 Aug 2014.
- "Archives". Los Angeles Times. April 2012.
- Smye, Rachel. "Murky 'Threats' Will Get Inside Your Head", NPR, New York, 8 March 2012. Retrieved on 5 Aug 2014.
- "Members", www.givingwhatwecan.org
- http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374279981
- "Labyrinth". The New Yorker. 9 February 2015.
- "Gray: 'How He Felt'".
- "DEAR NAVIGATOR » Amelia Gray / DEVICE". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
- "The Swan as Metaphor for Love | Joyland". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
- ""These Are the Fables" by Amelia Gray". 8 May 2013.
- "The Inheritance". 30 August 2016.
- "The Odds". 18 May 2018.
- NYPL Young Lions Award
- DIAGRAM 8.3
- Dylan Thomas Prize 2012 longlist
- Shirley Jackson Prize
- 2019 WGA Awards winners and finalists