Claire O’Connor is an educator who has worked with students of many ages in New York, California, Idaho, Morocco, Malaysia, Greece, South Africa, and Scotland. Her stories have appeared in the Baltimore Review, Best New American Voices, Fiction Circus, LEON Literary Review, Shenandoah, the Southern Indiana Review, and Wigleaf, and she has previously won The Missouri Review’s Miller Audio Prize for prose. She lives with her wife in Scotland and various other parts of the world.