Bennett Sims is 26 and was born in Baton Rouge. He graduated from Pomona College in 2008 and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2012, where he held a Truman Capote Fellowship and a John C. Schupes Fellowship in Fiction. He is currently a Provost Postgraduate Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa. His stories have appeared in A Public Space, Zoetrope, Orion, Subtropics, Tin House and Electric Literature.
‘Unanswered questions, dictionary-demanding language and a rich
sense of light characterise this addition to the “literary
paranormal” stable. If you like… Justin Cronin’s The Passage you’ll
like this’
*Metro*
‘[A] highly unusual take on the zombie novel… ambitious and
thought-provoking’
*Guardian*
‘Bennett Sims is a writer of obvious talent and literary skill’
*Curious Animal*
‘Bennett Sims is a writer fearsomely equipped with an intellectual
and linguistic range to rival a young Nabokov’s, Nicholson Baker’s
gift for miniaturistic intaglio, and an arsenal of virtuosities
entirely his own. A Questionable Shape announces a
literary talent of genre-wrecking brilliance.’
*Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned*
‘Playful, absorbing, bittersweet, and intelligent, and, like
a bite, it gets under your skin.’
*Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead*
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