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Bennett Sims is an American fiction writer. He has published the novel A Questionable Shape (2013) and the short story collections White Dialogues and Other Minds and Other Stories. He is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa.
Bennett Sims | |
|---|---|
| Born | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, novelist |
| Alma mater | Pomona College Iowa Writers' Workshop |
Early life and education
editSims was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[1][2] During high school, he spent three summers at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts' boarding program, where he wrote fiction.[3] In 2008, he graduated from Pomona College, where he was mentored by David Foster Wallace.[3] He later graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow,[4] and he served as a Provost's Postgraduate Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa in 2012-2013.[5]
Career
editSims's debut novel, A Questionable Shape, was published by Two Dollar Radio on May 1, 2013.[6] It won the 2014 Bard Fiction Prize, which included $30,000 and a semester-long writer-in-residence appointment at Bard College.[7]
Many reviews called the book a novel with zombies that is not a zombie novel.[8][9][10] It is set in Louisiana and opaquely references the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.[11][12] It received generally favorable reviews from media outlets, including The Guardian,[9] Electric Literature,[13] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[12] and Publishers Weekly.[14]
In 2017, Sims published his second book, the short story collection White Dialogues, with Two Dollar Radio.[15] It received favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly,[16] Kirkus Reviews,[17] and Bookforum.[18] Sims was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 2018-2019, where he worked on another novel.[19]
Sims's stories have been published in The Iowa Review,[20] Story,[21] Conjunctions,[22] Ploughshares,[23] and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.[24]
Other Minds and Other Stories was a finalist for The Story Prize.[25]
Sims teaches undergraduate fiction courses at the University of Iowa.[26]
References
edit- ↑ "Bennett Sims". The Times. April 2, 2022. Archived from the original on January 20, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
- ↑ Weesam (April 2, 2022). "Bennett Sims". Worlds Without End. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
- 1 2 Loeb, Eryn (2013-05-01). "First: Bennett Sims's A Questionable Shape". Poets & Writers Magazine. 41 (3): 75–80.
- ↑ "Bennett Sims". UK. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "Past Provost's Postgraduate Visiting Writers and Fellows | English | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa". english.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "A Questionable Shape". Two Dollar Radio. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ Relations, Bard Public. "Annual Bard Fiction Prize Is Awarded To Bennett Sims | Bard College Public Relations". www.bard.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "Review: A Questionable Shape, by Bennett Sims". Electric Literature. 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- 1 2 "A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims review – Zombies in Louisiana". the Guardian. 2014-07-11. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ Goldman, Nathan. "A Zombie Novel Without Zombies: An Interview with Bennett Sims | The American Reader". The American Reader. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ Full Stop. "Bennett Sims". Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- 1 2 "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "A Questionable Shape". Electric Literature. 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims". www.publishersweekly.com. 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "White Dialogues". Two Dollar Radio. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "White Dialogues by Bennett Sims". Publishers Weekly. 2017-10-01. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ WHITE DIALOGUES | Kirkus Reviews.
- ↑ "Top Shelf". Bookforum. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ Rome, American Academy in (20 February 2019). "Bennett Sims". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ SIMS, BENNETT (2014). "City of Wolfmen". The Iowa Review. 44 (3): 3–6. doi:10.17077/0021-065X.7506. ISSN 0021-065X. JSTOR 43999703.
- ↑ Haas, Katy (15 December 2015). "Story - 2015". www.newpages.com. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "A Nightmare, by Bennett Sims". Conjunctions. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ Sims, Bennett (2018). "Pecking Order". Ploughshares. 44 (1): 174–183. doi:10.1353/plo.2018.0034. S2CID 201780413. Project MUSE 692956.
- ↑ "Sims; Bennett – Story". www.storymagazine.org. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ "Here are this year's finalists for The Story Prize". LitHub. 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ↑ "Bennett Sims | English | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa". english.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-02.