February 25, 2010—
Over the course of two years, artists from North Dakota and South Dakota collaborated with the Bush Foundation to explore new ways of supporting the professional development of artists in the region through the Dakota Creative Connections grant program
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Career Field: Literary Arts
Secondary Field: Fiction
Sheila O’Connor’s (Minneapolis, MN) second novel, Where No Gods Came, won the Minnesota Book Award as well as the Michigan Award for Literary Fiction. It was also chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her previous novel, Tokens of Grace, received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her poems, stories and essays have been published in literary anthologies and journals, most recently Riding Shotgun: Women Writers Write about Their Mothers. Her short story, Just Say the Word, won the Tamarack Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, O’Connor teaches fiction at Hamline University where she serves as fiction editor for Water~Stone Review. Her work has been recognized with fellowships from the Bush Foundation (2001), The Loft Literary Center/McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Since 1984, she has worked extensively with young people and educators as a writer-in-the-residence.
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