About the Author

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.

Reviews

‘[A] highly unusual take on the zombie novel… ambitious and thought-provoking’
*Guardian*

‘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*

‘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*