Amelia Gray

American writer (born 1982)

Novelist
writer

NationalityAmericanAlma mater

Arizona State University
Texas State University

Period2009–presentWebsitewww.ameliagray.com

Amelia Gray (born August 17, 1982) is an American writer. She is the author of the short story collections AM/PM (Featherproof Books), Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two), and Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and the novels THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Isadora (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Gray has been shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction^[1] and her television writing has been nominated for a WGA Award.

The New York Times called Gray's stories "leaps of faith, brave excursions into the realms of the unreal."^[2] while the Los Angeles Times defined her style as "akin to the alternately seething and absurd moods of David Lynch and Cronenberg."^[3] Of THREATS, NPR said "Amelia Gray's psychological thriller takes us to the brink between reality and delusion."^[4]

Gray is a member of Giving What We Can, a community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.^[5]

Bibliography

Novels

THREATS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
Isadora (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)^[6]

Short story collections

AM/PM (Featherproof Books, 2009)
Museum of the Weird (Fiction Collective Two, 2010)
Gutshot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)

Filmography

Television

Mr. Robot (2017–2018)
Maniac (2018)
Gaslit (2022)

Short films

"Curated" (dir. Gillian Jacobs) (2018)
"Waste" (dir. Justine Raczkiewicz) (2017)

Video games

Telling Lies (2019)
Immortality (2022)

Awards and honors

Winner

2010: Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award
2016: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award^[14]

Nominated

2008: Amanda Davis Highwire shortlist
2008: DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction finalist^[15]
2012: Dylan Thomas Prize longlist^[16]
2012: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction shortlist^[1]
2016: Shirley Jackson Award for Collection^[17]
2019: WGA Award (Adapted Long Form) with Nick Cuse, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Danielle Henderson, Mauricio Katz, Patrick Somerville, and Caroline Williams^[18]

References

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^ Lennon, J. Robert. "Everything Turns to Fire" Archived 2016-10-18 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, New York, 15 October 2010. Retrieved on 5 Aug 2014.
^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times. April 2012. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
^ Smye, Rachel. "Murky 'Threats' Will Get Inside Your Head" Archived 2018-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, NPR, New York, 8 March 2012. Retrieved on 5 Aug 2014.
^ "Members", www.givingwhatwecan.org, archived from the original on 2020-05-12, retrieved 2020-10-25
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-07-07. Retrieved 2016-12-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Labyrinth". The New Yorker. 9 February 2015. Archived from the original on 27 July 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
^ "Gray: 'How He Felt'". Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
^ "DEAR NAVIGATOR » Amelia Gray / DEVICE". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
^ "The Swan as Metaphor for Love | Joyland". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
^ ""These Are the Fables" by Amelia Gray". 8 May 2013. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "The Inheritance". 30 August 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
^ "The Odds". 18 May 2018. Archived from the original on 21 July 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ "Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists". The New York Public Library. Archived from the original on 2017-08-25. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
^ "DIAGRAM :: 8.3, All Fiction". thediagram.com. Archived from the original on 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
^ Turner, Robin (July 30, 2012). "Dylan Thomas Prize 2012 longlist unveiled with two youngest ever entrants". Wales Online. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
^ "The Shirley Jackson Awards » 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees". Archived from the original on 2023-11-27. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
^ "2023 Writers Guild Awards Winners & Nominees". awards.wga.org. Archived from the original on 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2019-05-20.