Photo Credit: Polly Antonia Barrowman
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 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and two collections of short stories, Creature and I Go To Some Hollow. Her new book, A Horse at Night: On Writing, came out in October of 2022 with Dorothy, a publishing project in the US and Daunt Books in the UK. In 2021, she was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her writing has 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 with her husband, writer/photographer/videomaker Amarnath Ravva, where she is at work on a new novel that circles quietly around pleasure, landscape, heat, anxiety, endings, and love.
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 with her husband, writer/photographer/videomaker Amarnath Ravva, where she is at work on a new novel that circles quietly around pleasure, landscape, heat, anxiety, endings, and love.
Represented by Melissa Flashman at Janklow & Nesbit.
contact: aminacain@gmail.com