Aimee Bender

Life

Aimee Bender received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine. Your professors in Irvine were among other Judith Grossman and Geoffrey Wolff. Since that time she has been friends with the American writer Alice Sebold.

Bender's short stories were first published in publications such as Granta, McSweeney 's and The Paris Review. In 1998 appeared with The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a collection of short stories in book form, which came out as the girl who caught fire in German translation. Your first novel An Invisible Sign of My Own, published in 2003 under the title I could disappear when you touch me in German, followed in 2005 with Willful Creatures another volume of short stories, as well as the 2009 story, The Third Elevator.

In The particular sadness of lemon cake (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, 2010) Bender tells of a girl who discovers at the age of nine years that they can when eating food other that prevailed when cooking out to taste the feeling sensations. With a slightly surreal elements of the novel depicts the breakup of her family and the difficult path of the girl into adulthood.

Twice Bender won the Pushcart Prize and was nominated for the 2005 James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 2009, she was with her ​​short story Faces one of the finalists for the Shirley Jackson Award in the short story division. Her works have been translated into sixteen languages ​​.

Aimee Bender lives in Los Angeles and currently teaches (2011) creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA). She is also involved in a workshop which helps mentally disabled and disadvantaged people to complete their self-created theater pieces and perform.

Publications

• The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, 1998. The girl that caught fire. Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-44365-2.

• I could disappear when you touch me. Novel. Goldmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-73132-1.

• The particular sadness of lemon cake. Novel. Translated from English by Christiane Buchner and Martina Tichy. Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-0986-9.