Dorene O’Brien is the author of
the short story anthology “Voices of the Lost and Found” (2007). She teaches
creative writing at the College for Creative Studies and at Wayne State
University. She obviously practices what she preaches, for in 2004, she won the
Bridport Prize with her short story “#12 Dagwood on Rye”. According to the
Bridport judge Jim Crace, this story was “an entirely convincing, slow-burning,
complicated tale of depression, medication and anxiety… Oddness has its
strengths”.
She has also won Red Rock Review’s Mark Twain Award for
Short Fiction with “Little Birds” , the New Millennium’s Fiction Award for her
story “Ovenbirds”
(2002), she was a runner-up in the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award (2003)
for “Riding the Hubcap”, and she was a finalist in Night Train’s Fifty-Fifty
Awards in 2003 for “The Gift of Vision”, and she was also a finalist in the
2005 Raymond Carver Short Story Awards with “Way
past Taggin’” (pdf file). In 2004, she was awarded a literature fellowship
from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been published in the
Connecticut Review, the Clackamas Literary Review, New Millennium Writings, the
Chicago Tribune, the MacGuffin, the Red Rock Review, Peregrine, and Fine Print,
Alkali Flats, Binx Street, The Diftwood Review, Huckleberry Press, The New Press
Literary Quarterly, and Princeton Arts Review. She lives in West Bloomfield,
Michigan.
Visit Dorene O’Brien’s homepage Visit Dorene O’Brien’s blog
Local
author wins prestigious prize – The Oakland Press report on Dorene O’Brien winning
the Bridport
El Nino – a short
story in Margin
I’m
warning you – a short story in 42opus
Why
I’m here – a poem from 42opus
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