- Neil Connelly
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Neil Connelly 
Born August 6, 1968
PennsylvaniaOccupation Author, lecturer Nationality American Genres Fiction
Influences- Robert Olen Butler
Neil O'Boyle Connelly was born in Pennsylvania, where he currently lives. He is the author of the novels Saint Michael's Scales, which was a finalist for the 2002 Borders Original Voices series[1] and Buddy Cooper Finds a Way. He was a professor of English and the Director of Creative Writing at McNeese State University,[2] his own Alma Mater, in one of the longest running MFA writing programs in the United States. Connelly studied under founder of the McNeese MFA program, John Wood, then later under Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Olen Butler. Connelly is currently an assistant professor of English at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.[3]
His story "The Adventures of Ultimate Man" was published in River City and subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2006, Oxford American included him in a list of prominent novelists of the Southern United States.
His third novel, The Miracle Stealer, was published in fall of 2010 by Scholastic. Kirkus Reviews called the book "A thought-provoking examination of the power of faith and the human desire for a savior."[4]
Trivia
Connelly was a classmate of fellow writer Adam Johnson in the McNeese State University MFA program in writing.
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Categories:- American novelists
- American short story writers
- 1968 births
- Living people
- American novelist stubs
- American short story writer stubs
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