Mike O’Connor
County: Jefferson County
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Awards
Fellowship Awards 2009
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About
Mike O’Connor is a poet, writer, and translator of Chinese literature. Through the 1970’s he farmed and worked in the woods on the Olympic Peninsula. Through the 1980’s and into the mid-nineties he lived in Asia where he studied Chinese culture and worked as a journalist. He has published eight volumes of poetry and translation, most recently When the Tiger Weeps and Unnecessary Talking: The Montesano Stories, a memoir of childhood days. He is a recipient of an NEA literature fellowship and is an honorary fellow of Hong Kong Baptist University.
Featured Works
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Unnecessary Talking, Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2009.
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When the Tiger Weeps, Pleasure Boat Studio, 2004.
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Cornish Folk Tales, The History Press, 2010.