Elizabeth O’Connor is the 2020 winner of the White Review Short Story Prize as well as the author of the debut novel Whale Fall. Based in Birmingham, England, O’Connor holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Birmingham.
Whale Fall takes place on a small Welsh island where a local woman becomes entangled with two ethnographers hoping to learn more about the isolated culture there. O’Connor explores the tension between personal ambition and community integrity, capturing a woman’s struggle on the brink of transformative change.
We asked Elizabeth O’Connor to answer our recurring “A Life of Books” questionnaire so readers can get to know her better through the books that shaped her life.
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