Dorene O'Brien

Dorene O'Brien is a Detroit-based writer and teacher whose stories have won the Red Rock Review Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Prize, and the international Bridport Prize. She is also an NEW, Vermont Studio Center and Hemingway-Pfeiffer creative writing fellow. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Review, Madison Review, Best of Carve Magazine, Short Story Review, Southern Humanities Review, Detroit Noir, Montreal Review, Republic of Letters, Passages North, and others. Voices of the Lost and Found, her first fiction collection, won the USA Best Book Award for ort Fiction. Her fiction chapbook, Ovenbirds and Other Stories, won the Wordrunner Chapbook Prize in 2018. Her second full-length collection, What It Might Feel Like to Hope, won a 2019 gold medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards. She is currently writing a literary/Sci-Fi hybrid novel.