Aurelie Sheehan

Photo credit: Cybele Knowles

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, as well as a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant. Her work has been published in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Fence, New England Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, and an Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Aurelie is an associate professor of fiction at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

New Book! Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories is coming out in October with BOA Editions, Ltd.

Aurelie will be reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center on November 14, 2013, along with Farid Matuk.

Agent: Ellen Levine, Trident Media Group

Books

Fiction
Very short stories with a sense of self
"Lyrical, assured, heartbreaking."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Deliciously wacky debut novel... Hilarious, sly, sharply observed, and one of a kind.”
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Take a ride with Sheehan, and you will look differently at the world.”
--The Washington Post