Dorene O'Brien

Dorene O'Brien's fiction has appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, New Millennium Writings, the Red Rock Review, Inkwell, the MacGuffin, Peregrine, Fine Print, the Chicago Tribune and others. She is the 2000 winner of Red Rock Review's Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the 2002 winner of New Millennium's Fiction Award, and a 2003 winner of the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She has been nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize, has won the 2004 Bridport Prize, and has received a 2004 literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches writing at the College for Creative Studies and at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her website is located at doreneobrien.com.