Jaimy Gordon's third novel, Bogeywoman, was on the Los Angeles Times Best Books List for 2000, as well as on Context's booksellers' list of the Most Important Works of Fiction published that year. Gordon was born and raised in Baltimore, a city which figures prominently in Bogeywoman. Her second novel, She Drove Without Stopping , was published in 1990 by Algonquin Books. Often described as a woman's road novel, the book was an American Library Association Notable Book for 1990, and in 1991 it won the author an Academy-Institute Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Gordon is also the author of a novella, Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue (Burning Deck), a narrative poem, The Bend, The Lip, The Kid (Sun), and the underground fantasy classic, Shamp of the City-Solo (McPherson & Company). She also translates the fiction of Maria Beig from the German, most recently Hermine, an Animal Life , a novel (forthcoming in 2005 from New Issues). Gordon has received grants for her fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been a Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College. Her short story about horseracing, "A Night's Work," was chosen for Best American Short Stories 1995, and she is completing a fourth novel , Lord of Misrule, about the racetrack.

 

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Fiction
A Night's Work
Best American Short Stories, 1995

Polio Weather
Colorado Review, Summer 2001

Essays
The Strange Afterlife of Bruno Schulz
Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2004

Little Man in the Woods
In the Middle of the Midwest,
Indiana University Press, 2004