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This author appeared at the 2009 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Amelia Gray
If anything's going to save the characters in Gray's debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it's a John Mayer concert tee. In AM/PM, Gray's flash-fiction collection, impish humor is on full display. Gray penned one short piece in the morning and one in the evening every day for two months, eventually compiling them into this cleverly crafted book of linked vignettes. The founder of Five Things, a reading series challenging five artists to create an original five-minute piece from a provided prompt, Gray teaches at Austin Community College; her work has appeared in The Onion, American Short Fiction, McSweeny’s Internet Tendency, DIAGRAM, and Caketrain, among others. In AM/PM, Gray offers a tour through the lives of 23 characters across 120 stories full of lizard tails, Schrödinger boxes and volcano love. Follow June, who wakes up one morning covered in seeds; Leonard, who falls in love with a chaise lounge; and Andrew, who talks to his house in times of crisis. An intermittent love story as seen through a darkly comic lens, AM/PM mixes poetry and prose, humor and hubris in a truly original piece of fiction. Her work has been chosen as the finalist for McSweeney's Amanda Davis Highwire Contest and the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Contest. She lives in Austin.
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