Aimee Bender is the author of three books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, and Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year.
Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, and many more, as well as heard on PRI's This American Life and Selected Shorts. She's received two Pushcart prizes, and was nominated for the TipTree award in 2005.
She lives in Los Angeles, and teaches creative writing at USC. (Source)
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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The particular sadness of lemon cake: a novel
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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: stories
2 editions - first published in 1998 Borrow -
Lit Riffs: Writers "Cover" Songs They Love
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
La fille en jupe inflammable
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
The Best of Pif Magazine: Off-Line
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Tin House: Fantastic Women (Tin House)
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
I've been here the whole time: a novel
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
Land-Grant College Review Issue No. One
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
1 edition - first published in 2011
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