What, Why, How: Dorene O’Brien

What?

I have published poetry and essays, but at heart I am a fiction writer. My first story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, is a group of gritty, unflinching, largely tragic stories told from the perspectives and in the voices of eleven disparate characters: an urban graffiti artist, a doctoral student who loses his mind while studying literary theory, a teenage boy on an interstate crime spree. I am obsessed with studying people who are unlike me (after all, how interesting are w...