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Aurelie Sheehan is the author of three short story collections, two novels, and a novella. Her most recent books are Demigods on Speedway (University of Arizona Press, 2014), and Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories (BOA 2013). Stories have appeared in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fence, The Mississippi Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and The Southern Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, and an Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Sheehan is a professor of fiction at the University of Arizona. For more information about Aurelie Sheehan, visit www.aureliesheehan.com.

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