About Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender is an American literary fiction author from Los Angeles whose works have been anthologized and translated into more than ten languages. It was in 1998 that she published “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt” which would go on to become a Notable Book in the New York Times. “An Invisible Sign of My Own,” which was her first novel was a critically acclaimed work that she published in the year 2000. While “Willful Creatures” her collection of short stories was highly praised for its surrealistic plots and characters, she would come into her own with the publishing of “The Particular Sadness of Lemon.” It was at Irvine where she studied with Geoffrey Wolff and Judith Grossman who became friends that encouraged her to pursue a career as an author.
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
3 books in seriesPublication Order
- An Invisible Sign of My Own(2000)
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake(2010)
- The Butterfly Lampshade(2020)
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
4 books in seriesPublication Order
- The Third Elevator(2007)
- Faces(2009)
- The Doctor and the Rabbi(2013)
- Dreaming in Polish(2015)
Publication Order of Collections
3 books in seriesPublication Order
- The Girl in the Flammable Skirt(1998)
- Willful Creatures(2005)
- The Color Master(2013)
Publication Order of Anthologies
20 books in seriesPublication Order
- On the Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology(2002)
- The Future Dictionary of America(2004)
- The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories(2004)
- The Secret Society of Demolition Writers(2005)
- The Insomniac Reader(2005)
- Awake!(2007)
- Tin House(2007)
- Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical(2009)
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me(2010)
- Unstuck #1(2011)
- The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade(2012)
- Monsters of Literary Sightings(2012)
- My First Novel(2013)
- Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly(2013)
- xo Orpheus(2013)
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