Sheila O'Connor is the author of four novels: Keeping Safe the Stars, Sparrow Road, Where No Gods Came and Tokens of Grace. Where No Gods Came won the Minnesota Book Award and the Michigan Award for Literary Fiction, and was selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title.

She has also edited two collections of writing by young people: Come Home Before Dark and In My Hands Forever.  Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in anthologies and magazines including: Riding Shotgun; Women Write About Their Mothers; The Next Parish Over; Mothers and Daughters and others.

Her work has been recognized with Bush Foundation, Loft McKnight and Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships.  

Sheila O'Connor teaches fiction in the MFA program at Hamline University where she also serves as editor of Water~Stone Review. A long-time poet with the Writer-in-the-Schools program, Sheila has taught writing to thousands of young people.  She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Books by Sheila O'Conner

Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth

by Sheila O'Conner - Children's, Children's 10-12, Family, Fiction, Friendship, Historical Fiction

Keeping Safe the Stars

by Sheila O'Conner - Youth Fiction