Amina Cain


Amina Cain is an American writer, best known for her 2020 novel Indelicacy.

Writing

Cain began writing in her last year as an undergraduate. Cain lived in Chicago during the mid-2000s and later moved to Los Angeles, where she continues to live as of 2020.
Writers who have influenced Cain's work include Lydia Davis. Other writers Cain has expressed an "affinity toward" include Marguerite Duras, Renee Gladman, Azareen [Van der Vliet Oloomi], and Kate Zambreno.

Honors

Indelicacy was shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction [First Novel Prize] and for the 2021 Folio Prize.

Novels

Short story collections

  • I Go to Some Hollow
  • ''Creature''

Nonfiction

  • ''A Horse at Night: On Writing''