Along the Watchtower (Squires) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1968-69
• Where—Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA
• Education—Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
• Awards—Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction
• Currently—lives in Edmond, Oklahoma


Constance Squires is a city person who needs a lot of room.  She lives on an acre at the northern edge of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, with her husband, daughter, three dogs, a cat, a lizard, a piano, a guitar, a drum set, and too many books.

Squires holds a Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State University and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. In addition to Live from Medicine Park (2017), she is the author of the novel Along the Watchtower (2011), which won the 2012 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction, and a short story collection, Wounding Radius (2018). Her short stories have appeared in Guernica, Atlantic Monthly, Shenandoah, Identity Theory, Bayou, Dublin Quarterly, This Land, and a number of other magazines.

Squires' nonfiction has appeared in Salon, New York Times, Village Voice, World Literature Today, Philological Review, Largehearted Boy, and has been featured on the NPR program Snap Judgment. She has been a regular contributor to the RollingStone500: Telling Stories in Stereo (thers500.com) and wrote the screenplay for Sundance fellow Jeffrey Palmer's 2015 short film, Grave Misgivings. In addition, she was a judge in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, episode of Literary Death Match, and was the featured guest editor for This Land’s summer fiction issue.

She is currently working on a novel, The Real Remains, about a couple in modern-day Oklahoma forced to deal with aftershocks from the 1995 Murrah Bombing when a friend they believed but could never prove perished in the blast reaches out to them on Facebook. (From the author's website .)