​Aimee Pokwatka is the USA Today bestselling author of the novels Self-Portrait with Nothing, The Parliament, and Accumulation. Born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, she studied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she helped catalog a collection of archaic-period human skeletal remains. She received her MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University.
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She has worked at Blockbuster Video, where she rewound and shrinkwrapped VHS tapes, and as a veterinary technician, where she expressed anal glands and once tended to a lion cub from the circus. She has also taught writers of all ages, and served as the editor of Salt Hill Journal and The Newtowner. She is an active member of Yellow Studio, a community for creative women and artists in Northern Westchester. 

She lives in a haunted house in New York with her family.

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Aimee Pokwatka is the USA Today bestselling author of the novels Self-Portrait with Nothing, The Parliament, and Accumulation. Born and raised in West Virginia, she studied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and received her MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. She lives in New York with her family.