Claire O'Connor
Thesis title: The Roof of the World
PhD supervisor:
Qualifications
BA English, Yale
MFA Creative Writing, University of Idaho
MS Ed, Long Island University
Research summary
fiction, ecocriticism
Coming Soon:
"Night Swimming with Godzilla" in New Writing Scotland 40
Previously Published:
"How to Have the Perfect Picnic" in Open Book Unbound June 2022
"The Epic of Beowulf According to Wealhtheow" in Hillfire Anthology, Vol 1, May 2022
"Jaws" in Root of Evil, a Villainous Anthology, in Daily Drunk Mag, Oct 31, 2021
"Birth" in Litro, 22 Oct 2021
"When the Queen of Heaven Broke Open the Underworld and Unleashed the Dead" in Wigleaf, 1 Sept 2021, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
"Myths" in LEON Literary Review, Issue #9, 2021, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
"Home From the Wars" in the Baltimore Review, Spring 2021, finalist for Best of the Net in Fiction 2022
"The Roof of the World (Part 1)" winner of the Missouri Review Miller Audio Prize 2018
"Foreign Bodies" in Shenandoah, Spring 2016
"Age of the Fifth Sun" in the Southern Indiana Review, Fall/Winter 2015
"One in Wins" in Gravel, May 2015
"The Second Door" in Fiction Circus
"Cape Town" in the Best New American Voices 2010