Corinne O’Shaughnessy is a writer, traveler, and lifelong overthinker with a penchant for Latin dance, the Spanish language, and adopting more animals than she should. A retired New York City educator, she gratefully spent 26 years learning with her students while wrangling bureaucracy as a social studies and literacy teacher in The Bronx and Harlem. With retirement, she has not only been able to indulge her passion for writing, but she is also an avid volunteer, most recently delivering humanitarian aid at the Arizona border.

Her essays and short stories have appeared in various online journals, and she has performed live readings with WritersRead.org and the Irish American Writers and Artists organization, which means people have willingly listened to her talk (a fact that still surprises her). She is currently working on a memoir, because maybe, just maybe, she can make sense of the incomprehensible?

Corinne is the proud mother of two grown sons, and a small army of fur babies. To support those babies, she occasionally works as a server at an elite NYC private university, rendering her invisible.  As a single older woman, invisibility is familiar and allows her to spy more effectively collecting so much fodder. When she’s not traveling, she splits her time between The Bronx and Oaxaca, Mexico, trying to avoid the urge to adopt all the street dogs.