Amelia Gray is the author of five books, most recently Isadora. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Guernica, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and VICE. She is winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, and is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She lives in Los Angeles.
She left the tobacco tin on his desk but brought the book to him, holding it pinched at the base of its spine like a rat she intended to thrash against a wall.