Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels and four short-story collections, including Once into the Night, winner of the 2018 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize (Fiction Collective 2). Her stories have appeared in journals including Conjunctions, Mississippi Review, New England Review, and The Southern Review, and her novella, This Blue, was published as a Ploughshares Solo. Sheehan is a professor and head of the English Department at the University of Arizona.