Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and writer of short stories known for his surreal plot and character.

Bender was born in a Jewish family [1] Bender received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego and a master's degree in art with the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. During UCI, she studied with Judith Grossman and Geoffrey Wolff. She received an ArtsBridge scholarship and worked with her mentor Keith Fowler to create a writing course for K - 12 students at Orange County, California. Currently she teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California and has been a lecturer in Doctor of Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California from 2012 to 2015. Previously, he taught the surrealist writing class at UCLA Promo Writers program, was a senior artist at a non-profit theater seminar, helped mentally disabled people write, guide, and write their own theatrical productions It was. action. She cited Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Andersen, Grimm Brothers and Ansexton as her influence on her writing. Bender is from Los Angeles and is a close friend of UCI graduate Alice Sebold.

Her first book was a collection of short stories, "Girls of Flammable Skirts" published in 1998. The book was chosen as the famous book of the New York Times in 1998 and spent seven weeks on the bestselling list of the Los Angeles Times. Her novel "My own invisible signature" was published in 2000 and was chosen as the best choice of the Los Angeles Times this year. In 2005, she published another collection of short stories, "intentional creatures" recommended by "Follow" magazine, recommended by McSweeney's - one of the best books of the year. Her novel "The Third Elevator" was published by Madras Press in 2009. Her novel "Lemon cake is particularly sad" was published by Doubleday in 2010.

Bender won two Pushcart awards and was nominated for James Tiptree, Jr. In 2005. I won a prize. In her short story, Faces remained in the final selection of 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards. In 2009, Bender became the current judge of Flatmancrooked Writing Prize, a writing award created for new short films by Flatmancrooked Publishing.

Bender's works are also posted on Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, Opium Magazine, McSweeney, The Paris Review, The Coffin Factory, and several other selections. She also listened to this American life and chose shorts. [2]

Aimee Bender's unusual short story "The Rememberer" was first published in the Missouri Review in the autumn of 1997. In 1998, Bender included a story called "girls of flammable skirts" in her first series. Most stories in the series have a surreal fairytale-like quality and some unique physical change (eg, in the story the women gave birth to her mother and her My husband woke up and found it) One of his holes, the "football size of the stomach") "Memorator" began to evolve from a man to a baboon and a turtle overnight in the opposite direction It is a story of a woman. The situation is very strange, but it is in a realistic environment; these characters have an inconspicuous relationship, ordinary work, and an ordinary family. Normal and strange juxtaposition is a symbol of magical realism, a contemporary literary genre used by writers such as Gabriel García Marquez and Angela Carter.

The exceptional story of Aimee Bender "The Rememberer" was written in a style called "magical realism". Please set a strange environment in the reality framework for the possibility of change. This story includes Darwin's theory of evolution, but vice versa. The husband of the hero reversed the procedure by turning into a creature returned to the sea. This story is told by the main character Anne, Ann is an ordinary woman, her lover is Ben. Her story seems as if a story took place as if the reader had read it. Ann is a thinker and she is a dreamer. Ann's role is both scientifically and emotionally troubled. But there is nothing to change the power of her lover to decentralize