{{short description|American writer (born 1982)}} {{distinguish|Amelia Gray Hamlin}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Amelia Gray | image = Amelia Gray author photo.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|8|17|mf=y}} | birth_place = Tucson, Arizona, U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist| * Novelist * Screenwriter}} | period = 2009–present | spouse = Lee Shipman (2019-present) | website = {{URL|http://www.ameliagray.com}} | alma_mater = {{ubl|Arizona State University (BA)|Texas State University (MFA)}} }}
'''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<ref name=PEN /> 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."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lennon|first=J. Robert|title=Everything Turns to Fire|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/books/review/Lennon-t.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018192144/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/books/review/Lennon-t.html|archive-date=October 18, 2016|access-date=August 5, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 15, 2010}}</ref> while the ''Los Angeles Times'' defined her style as "akin to the alternately seething and absurd moods of David Lynch and Cronenberg."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-apr-01-la-ca-amelia-gray-20120401-story.html|title=Archives|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 2012|access-date=2020-02-18|archive-date=2018-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022071208/http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/01/entertainment/la-ca-amelia-gray-20120401|url-status=live}}</ref> Of ''THREATS'', NPR said "Amelia Gray's psychological thriller takes us to the brink between reality and delusion."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smye|first=Rachel|title=Murky 'Threats' Will Get Inside Your Head|url=https://www.npr.org/books/authors/147979745/amelia-gray|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118024356/https://www.npr.org/books/authors/147979745/amelia-gray|archive-date=November 18, 2018|access-date=August 5, 2014|website=NPR|date=March 8, 2012}}</ref>
== Bibliography ==
=== Novels === * ''THREATS'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) * ''Isadora'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374279981 |title=Isadora: A Novel |access-date=2016-12-03 |archive-date=2019-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707151851/https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374279981 |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Short story collections === * ''AM/PM'' (Featherproof Books, 2009) * ''Museum of the Weird'' (Fiction Collective Two, 2010) * ''Gutshot'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
===Other short stories=== * "Labyrinth"<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/16/labyrinth-4|title=Labyrinth|magazine=The New Yorker|date=9 February 2015|access-date=18 February 2020|archive-date=27 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727080911/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/16/labyrinth-4|url-status=live}}</ref> * "How He Felt"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wigleaf.com/200909hhf.htm|title=Gray: 'How He Felt'|access-date=2014-08-22|archive-date=2012-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008002856/http://wigleaf.com/200909hhf.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> * "Device"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.saic.edu/dearnavigator/summer2011/amelia-gray-device/ |title=Amelia Gray / DEVICE |website=Dear Navigator |access-date=2014-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826115120/http://blogs.saic.edu/dearnavigator/summer2011/amelia-gray-device/ |archive-date=2014-08-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * "The Swan as Metaphor for Love"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://joylandmagazine.com/stories/los_angeles/swan_metaphor_love |title=The Swan as Metaphor for Love | Joyland |access-date=2014-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113931/http://joylandmagazine.com/stories/los_angeles/swan_metaphor_love |archive-date=2014-08-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * "These Are the Fables"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/49927424766/clmp-recommends-these-are-the-fables-by-amelia-gray|title="These Are the Fables" by Amelia Gray|date=8 May 2013|access-date=22 August 2014|archive-date=26 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113938/http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/49927424766/clmp-recommends-these-are-the-fables-by-amelia-gray|url-status=live}}</ref> * "The Inheritance"<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://granta.com/the-inheritance/|title = The Inheritance|date = 30 August 2016|access-date = 3 December 2016|archive-date = 20 December 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161220032506/https://granta.com/the-inheritance/|url-status = live}}</ref> * "The Odds"<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://crimereads.com/the-odds/|title = The Odds|date = 18 May 2018|access-date = 16 August 2020|archive-date = 21 July 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200721175038/https://crimereads.com/the-odds/|url-status = live}}</ref>
== 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/awards/young-lions-fiction-award/list-winners-finalists|title=Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists|website=The New York Public Library|access-date=2016-07-04|archive-date=2017-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825232557/https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/awards/young-lions-fiction-award/list-winners-finalists|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2023: BAFTA Immortality (video game)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bafta.org/games/narrative-0|title=BAFTA Games Award List of Winners and Finalists|website=BAFTA|access-date=2024-06-06}}</ref>
===Nominated=== * 2008: Amanda Davis Highwire shortlist * 2008: DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction finalist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thediagram.com/8_3/|title=8.3, All Fiction|website=thediagram.com|access-date=2023-12-05|archive-date=2023-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601055530/https://thediagram.com/8_3/|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2012: Dylan Thomas Prize longlist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dylan-thomas-prize-2012-longlist-2028350|title=Dylan Thomas Prize 2012 longlist unveiled with two youngest ever entrants|first=Robin|last=Turner|date=July 30, 2012|website=Wales Online|access-date=August 5, 2014|archive-date=August 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082433/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dylan-thomas-prize-2012-longlist-2028350|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2012: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction shortlist<ref name=PEN>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penfaulkner.org/2013/03/06/congratulations-2013-penfaulkner-award-finalists/|title=Congratulations 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists! | The PEN/Faulkner Foundation|website=www.penfaulkner.org|access-date=2023-12-05|archive-date=2023-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619054357/https://www.penfaulkner.org/2013/03/06/congratulations-2013-penfaulkner-award-finalists/|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2016: Shirley Jackson Award for Collection<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/nominees/|title=The Shirley Jackson Awards » 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees|access-date=2023-12-05|archive-date=2023-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231127085143/https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/nominees/|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2019: WGA Award (Adapted Long Form) with Nick Cuse, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Danielle Henderson, Mauricio Katz, Patrick Somerville, and Caroline Williams<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://awards.wga.org/awards/nominees-winners|title=2023 Writers Guild Awards Winners & Nominees|website=awards.wga.org|access-date=2019-05-20|archive-date=2019-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207110428/https://awards.wga.org/awards/nominees-winners|url-status=live}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.ameliagray.com/}} * [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8571786/ Amelia Gray] at IMDB
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Amelia}} Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:American surrealist novelists Category:American women short story writers Category:American fabulists Category:American surrealist writers Category:Magical realism writers Category:21st-century American novelists Category:Arizona State University alumni Category:Texas State University alumni Category:Writers from Tucson, Arizona Category:21st-century American women novelists Category:American surrealist artists Category:American women surrealist artists Category:American women screenwriters Category:American television writers Category:21st-century American short story writers Category:Novelists from Arizona Category:PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners Category:Screenwriters from Arizona Category:American women television writers Category:21st-century American screenwriters