Barbara O'Connor was born in 1947 in Buffalo, New York. She is the author of eight books, including The Blue Wall, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and others
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Her work has been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories and Other Stories; The Best American Essays; The Best American Travel Writing; and other collections. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Her fiction has been translated into Italian, German, Czech, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Greek, Portuguese, Danish, Polish and Norwegian.