Varley O'Connor
Varley O'Connor | |
|---|---|
| Education | Boston University (BFA) University of California, Irvine (MFA) |
| Occupations | Novelist, short story writer |
Varley O'Connor is an American novelist and short story writer. She is an associate professor at Kent State University.
Biography
Having earned a BFA in acting from Boston University, O’Connor worked for several years as an actress.[1] She enrolled in the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine, graduating with an MFA (fiction emphasis) in 1989.
Works
O'Connor has published four novels,[2] all of which have been critically acclaimed: Like China (William Morrow, 1991), A Company of Three (Algonquin Books, 2003), The Cure,[3][4] and The Master's Muse (Scribner, 2012). She currently teaches both fiction and nonfiction creative writing at Kent State University. O'Connor has also published a number of short stories. Recent short prose has appeared in The Missouri Review, Santa Monica Review, Publishers Weekly, AWP Writer's Chronicle, and The Sun.[5]
O'Connor's novels deal with disparate elements: domestic marital abuse in Like China; the struggle to balance friendship, love and success in the acting world in A Company of Three; the flow and complexities of relationships in an extended family, set against a background of illness and wartime life in The Cure; and the relationship between Tanaquil LeClercq and George Balanchine in The Master's Muse.
References
- ↑ Varley O'Connor official website
- ↑ Kent State University English Department
- ↑ Bellevue Literary Press ISBN 978-1-934137-03-1
- ↑ Public Libraries entry
- ↑ The Sun Magazine article
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women short story writers
- Kent State University faculty
- 20th-century American women novelists
- 21st-century American women novelists
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- Novelists from Ohio
- Brooklyn College faculty
- American women academics