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.