Our former students and clients have published widely, placing their books with respected and well-known publishers. Many have won prestigious awards. Below is a small sampling.

Jean Thompson
Who Do You Love National Book Award Finalist, 1999
(Paperback, Scribner, 2000; Hardback, Harcourt Brace, 1999)
Uphill All the Way
(Five Star, due Winter 2000)
The Gasoline Wars, University of Illinois Press Winner
And Others

Thompson comments: "Phil O'Connor has all the needed smarts and toughness and real-world knowledge about both the art and the business of writing. I still follow the advice he gave me long ago and repeat it to my own students. He's a writer's writer, and he will encourage you to do your best."

Marshall Klimasewiski
Yun Hee, published in The New Yorker
Klimasewiski states: "You helped me more than anyone on this story in particular, but also with my understanding of writing and what it means to be a writer in general."

Tony Ardizzone
In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu
(Paperback, Picador USA, 2000; Hardback, Picador USA, 1999)
Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood
(Sunsinger Books/1996 Illinois Short Fiction)
And Others

Mark Brazaitis
The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, Iowa School of Letters Winner, 1998
(University of Iowa Press, 1998)
Steal My Heart
(Vanmeste Books, 2000)

Robert Ferrigno
Flinch
(Pantheon, 2001)
Heartbreaker
(Hardcover, Random House, 1999; Paperback, Warnervision, 2000)
The Horse Latitudes
(Morrow, 1990)
And Others

Carolyn Forché
Joseph Wesner at Midcareer
(Meadowbrook AA Art Gallery, 1996)
The Country Between Us
(Harpercollins, 1987)
Gathering the Tribes, Yale Series of Younger Poets Winner, 1976
(Yale Series, 1976)
And Others

William Hallberg
Power, Passion, Honor, and Glory: Five Heroes of Modern Golf
(Sports Poetry in Motion, 1999)
The Soul of Golf
(Fawcett, 1998)
And Others

Steve Heller
The Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman
(Chelsea Green, 1987)
And Others

Lynn Kostoff
A Choice of Nightmares
(Crown, 1991)

Tom Lorenz
Guys Like Us
(Viking, 1980)
And Others

Dan O'Brien
The Contact Surgeon
(The Lyons Press, 1999)
Equinox: Life, Love, and Birds of Prey
(The Lyons Press, 1997)
Brendan Prairie
(Scribner, 1997)
·And Others

Anne Panning
The Price of Eggs
(Coffeehouse, 1992)

June Spence
Missing Women and Others: Stories, Sarabande Books Winner, 1998
(Riverhead Books, 1998)

Robert Steiner
The Catastrophe
(Sun and Moon Classics, 1996)
Bathers
(New Directions, 1980)
And Others

Allen Wier
A Place for Outlaws
(Harper and Row, 1989)
Departing as Air
(Simon and Schuster, 1983)
Blanco
(Louisiana University Press, 1978)
And Others

Dara Wier
Our Master Plan
(Carnegie Mellon Press, 1999)
The Book of Knowledge
(Carnegie Mellon Press, 1988)
And Others

Margaret Willey
Thanksgiving with Me
(Harpercollins, 1998)
Facing the Music
(Laurel-Leaf, 1997)
And Others

Dr. L. Terry Chappell, M.D.
Questions from the Heart
(Hampton Roads Press, 1995)

Ron Rotunno
Jack Lambert: Tough as Steel
(Steel Valley Books, 1997)
And Countless Others

Kelli Mesplou
Corporate Trainer, Cisco Systems
Kelli comments: "Martha O'Connor is an excellent writer and editor... She has a natural eye for grabbing the heart of a piece and guiding it through editing to becoming truly fluid and thoughtful... She is always careful to hold to a high standard yet also to give positive feedback... Martha is an ideal mentor for any writer."

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