My Redroom URL

• http://www.redroom.com/member/neekee

About Me

• NIKI AGUIRRE is a London based fiction writer, born in the United States. She studied English Literature at the University of Illinois and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of London.

  Her debut collection of short fiction, 29 Ways to Drown, was published in 2007 (Lubin & Kleyner). She is the recipient of an Arts Council of England grant (2007) and a Birkbeck Outstanding Achievement Award in Creative Writing (2006).

  Her short stories have been published in Tell Tales, Mechanics' Institute Review, X-24 and LITRO Magazine. Niki is currently working on her first novel.

  Read more about Niki on her website: www.nikiaguirre.com 

Favorite Books

• Lolita, Diary of a Madman, Ficciones, Sound and the Fury, Anna Karenina, Dead Souls

Favorite Authors

• Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Vladamir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol, Flannery O'Connor, Roberto Bolano, Franz Kafka

What I'm Reading

• The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao, Runaway, The Book of Chameleons, Last Evenings on Earth

WORK

• Web Editor -- Local Government

Web Links

• http://www.nikiaguirre.com

EDUCATION

UPCOMING WORK

• Working on a novel to be finished this year. Working title: Transcending the Virtual

INFLUENCES

• Borges, Cortazar, Calvino, Harper Lee

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION

• Birkbeck, University of London, MA Creative Writing Alumni

PUBLISHERS

• Flipped Eye Publishing Ltd, (Lubin & Kleyner)

HOW TO CONTACT MY PUBLISHER

• correspondence address: P.O. Box 43771 Suite 13 London W14 8ZY telephone and fax: tel - 0845 652 9517 fax - 0845 652 9574 electronic: books [at] flippedeye [dot] net