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Joan Connor Reads Her Short Stories

The Folly of Being Comforted
&
Men in Brown

Joan Connor

Joan Connor is Professor in Fiction Writing at Ohio University and a professor in the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program.

Her third collection of short stories, History Lessons, won the AWP Award, 2002. Her previous collections are Here on Old Route 7 and We Who Live Apart. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Glimmer Train: The Southern Review, The Journal, Arts and Letters, TriQuarterly, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, Chelsea Magazine, Manoa, and Shenandoah among others.

She is a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council grant and the winner of the Ohio Writer award in fiction and nonfiction and the John Gilgun award. She lives in Athens, Ohio and Belmont, Vermont with her son, Kerry.

Listen to Joan Connor read her short story,
The Folly of Being Comforted
(21 min. 04 sec.)

Listen to Joan Connor read her short story,
Men in Brown
(31 min. 20 sec.)


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