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Aurelia Flaming was born and raised in Los Angeles. She grew up in a confluence of cultures, as her grandfathers were (respectively) a Mennonite farmer and Bruno Bettelheim, the psychoanalyst, author, and holocaust survivor. She decided to be a writer at age ten, and wrote her first novella at age eleven. It was not very good. In high school, she won the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Gold Award in the Short Short Story category, and wrote her first novel. It was also not very good. She graduated from Kenyon College with highest honors in English in 2001, then studied Government at Georgetown University. After dropping out of grad school (to write another novel), Aurelia worked as a bartender, freelance editor, nanny for a movie business family, and executive assistant at Frank Gehry’s architecture firm, taking time off to travel as much as possible. She is a co-author of the essay “Binuclear Man,” published in Rebecca Walker’s What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future (Riverhead, 2004). She currently resides in New Orleans, and is still trying to be a writer.
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