Amina Cain

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

Amina Cain
Nationality	American
Notable works	Indelicacy

Writing

Cain began writing in her last year as an undergraduate.^[1] Cain lived in Chicago during the mid-2000s and later moved to Los Angeles,^[2] where she continues to live as of 2020^[update].^[3]

Writers who have influenced Cain's work include Lydia Davis.^[2] Other writers Cain has expressed an "affinity toward" include Marguerite Duras, Renee Gladman, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, and Kate Zambreno.^[2][4]

Honors

Indelicacy was shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize^[5][6] and for the 2021 Folio Prize.^[7][8]

Bibliography

Novels

• Indelicacy (2020)

Short story collections

• I Go to Some Hollow (2009)
• Creature (2013)

Nonfiction

• A Horse at Night: On Writing (2022)