Claire O'Connor

Claire O'Connor's short fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices, Fiction Circus, Gravel and the Southern Indiana Review. Formerly a high school special education teacher in New York, she looks forward to spending the next year with her partner in South Africa before they return to Scotland.
Reading List
Foreign Bodies
When our daughter was four, she pushed half a turquoise crayon so far up her nose that Paul had to take her to the pediatrician, who removed it with tweezers. For a while the story was good for cocktail parties …