Tricia Currans-Sheehan is a professor of English/Writing at Briar Cliff University and editor of The Briar Cliff Review. She has had stories published in Connecticut Review, Fiction, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Portland Review, Puerto del Sol, Calyx, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Forum, Short Fiction by Women, Heritage of the Great Plains Journal, South Dakota Review, Kalliope, Wisconsin Review, and many others. Recently she won the Headwaters Literary Competition, sponsored by New Rivers Press, for her collection of short stories, The Egg Lady and Other Neighbors. Her new novel in stories, The River Road is published in October 2008.
