Sheila O'Connor

Sheila O’Connor is the author of six novels including her most recent hybrid book, Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts and Fictions, published by Rose Metal Press. Awards for her books include the Michigan Prize for Literary Fiction, Minnesota Book Award, International Reading Award, and Midwest Booksellers Award among others. Her books have been included in Best Books of the Year by Booklist, VOYA, Book Page, Bank Street, Chicago Public Library, and Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers. A multi-genre writer, her short stories, poems, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies including Bellingham Review, Minnesota Monthly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, Great River Review, Blue Earth Review, and others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Sheila O'Connor has been awarded Bush Fellowships (2003, 2009), Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants (2004, 2015, 2019), and a McKnight Fellowship. She has also been the recipient of artist residencies from The Studios of Key West, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Tyrone Guthrie Center, and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Hamline University where she serves as fiction editor for Water~Stone Review.