Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

Liese (pronounced: Lee-zuh) 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 specialized in emergency medicine, and eventually returned to writing. She published her second novel, The Possible World , in June 2018, and her third novel, What Could Be Saved, released in January 2021. She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is at work on the next book.