Aurelie Sheehan

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Aurelie Sheehan's most recent collection of stories, Once into the Night, won FC2's 2018 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction. She is the author of two novels and three previous short story collections, including History Lesson for Girls (Viking) and Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories (BOA Editions). Her novella, This Blue, was published as a Ploughshares Solo in 2014. Individual stories and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fence, Mississippi Review, Nimrod International Journal, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review, among other journals. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Jack Kerouac Literary Award, a Camargo Fellowship, and an Artists Projects Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She teaches fiction at the University of Arizona.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Fiction) 2010*

Best American Short Stories 2015*

Pushcart (Fiction) 2016*

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