Sheila O’Connor

Sheila O’Connor is the author of six award-winning novels for adults and young people, including, most recently, Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions (Rose Metal Press, 2019). Her book Where No Gods Came won the Minnesota Book Award and the Michigan Prize for Literary Fiction, and Sparrow Road received the International Reading Award. O’Connor received her MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she is a professor in the creative writing programs at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she serves as fiction editor for Water~Stone Review.

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Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, & Fictions

An excerpt of the novel by Sheila O'Connor October 2, 2019

At first it was a pale shrimp curled pink inside V’s belly; now it is a mammal the size of a small cat. V feels its gnawing paws claw at her ribs, feels the burrow of its skull between her legs, a thrashing angry animal fighting at the cave where it’s been kept.