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Amelia Gray

Biography

Amelia Gray

Amelia Gray is the author of several books, including AM/PM, MUSEUM OF THE WEIRD, THREATS and GUTSHOT. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House and VICE. She has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and is the winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. She lives in Los Angeles.

Amelia Gray

Books by Amelia Gray

by Amelia Gray - Fiction, Historical Fiction

In 1913, the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering. But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home. Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of 1913 she was a grieving mother, after a freak accident in Paris resulted in the drowning death of her two young children. The accident cracked Isadora’s life in two: on one side, the brilliant young talent who captivated audiences the world over; on the other, a heartbroken mother spinning dangerously on the edge of sanity.

by Amelia Gray - Fiction, Short Stories

A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in GUTSHOT, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. A master of the macabre, Gray's work is not for the faint of heart or gut.