Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
Liese O'Halloran Schwarz grew up in Washington, DC after an early childhood overseas. She attended Harvard University, and then medical school at University of Virginia. While in medical school, she won the Henfield/Transatlantic Review Prize for her short fiction, and also published her first novel, Near Canaan. She specialised in emergency medicine, eventually returned to writing, and published her second novel, The Possible World, in June 2018. Her third novel, What Could Be Saved, published...See more
Liese O'Halloran Schwarz grew up in Washington, DC after an early childhood overseas. She attended Harvard University, and then medical school at University of Virginia. While in medical school, she won the Henfield/Transatlantic Review Prize for her short fiction, and also published her first novel, Near Canaan. She specialised in emergency medicine, eventually returned to writing, and published her second novel, The Possible World, in June 2018. Her third novel, What Could Be Saved, published in January 2021. She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is at work on the next book. See less
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