WINONA, Minn. – Minnesota novelist Sheila O’Connor is doing a reading Monday in the Minne classroom building at Winona State University. Time: 5 p.m. Free. The reading will be from her 2019 work, “Evidence of V.” The novel, O’Conner’s sixth, uses flash forms, archival documents, a memoir, and historical research to reconstruct a buried history of incarcerated girls. O’Conner holds a Minnesota Book Award and a Marshall Project award for criminal justice books.
O’Conner. A professor of creative writing Pat Hamline University. Also fiction editor for Water~Stone Review.