Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, “History Lesson for Girls” and “The Anxiety of Everyday Objects,” as well as a story collection, “Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant.”

“Take a ride with Sheehan, and you will look differently at the world,” wrote the Washington Post about Sheehan’s stories. Of the new novel, Kirkus Reviews notes, “Her language remains carefully off-kilter, gorgeously specific and shot through with unobtrusive wit…lyrical, assured, heartbreaking.”

Raised mostly in Connecticut, Sheehan went to Hampshire College and The City College of New York. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, and the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, she teaches and directs the creative writing program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Visit her online at www.aureliesheehan.com.