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Amina Cain is the author of the novel Indelicacy, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, published in 2020, and two collections of short stories, Creature and I Go To Some Hollow. A Horse at Night: On Writing, came out in 2022. Her second novel, My New Face, will be published in the US by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2027, and with Daunt Books in the UK, and Text Publishing in Australia. Her books have been translated into Spanish, Turkish, Bulgarian, and Italian, and two new translations are forthcoming in Norwegian. Stories and essays have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, LA Times, Tate Etc. and other places.
Amina has also co-curated literary events, such as When Does It or You Begin?, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video at Links Hall in Chicago; Both Sides and The Center, a summer festival of readings and performances enacting various levels of proximity, intimacy, and distance at the MAK Center/Schindler House in West Hollywood; and the Errata Salon, a talk/lecture series at Betalevel in LA’s Chinatown.
She lives in Los Angeles.
Represented by Melissa Flashman at Janklow & Nesbit.
contact: aminacain@gmail.com
Amina has also co-curated literary events, such as When Does It or You Begin?, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video at Links Hall in Chicago; Both Sides and The Center, a summer festival of readings and performances enacting various levels of proximity, intimacy, and distance at the MAK Center/Schindler House in West Hollywood; and the Errata Salon, a talk/lecture series at Betalevel in LA’s Chinatown.
She lives in Los Angeles.
Represented by Melissa Flashman at Janklow & Nesbit.
contact: aminacain@gmail.com