All Roads: Stories - Paperback

by Colleen O'Brien (Author)

All Roads explores childhood trauma, addiction, and the reckless materialism of mainstream American culture. Set mostly in Chicago, the stories depict the idiosyncratic forms of refuge we take in a culture that demands our self-objectification.

Author Biography

COLLEEN O'BRIEN is originally from Chicago. Her short fiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Antioch Review, North American Review, and other magazines. She won a Pushcart Prize for her story "Charlie," which is anthologized in Pushcart XLV (2020). Her poetry chapbook, Spool in the Maze, won the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Prize, and she was a finalist in the 2021 National Poetry Series Open Competition. Her poems can be found in Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She recently worked as a staff writer for the HBO Max adaptation of the novel Station Eleven.