Episode 52: Interview with Constance Squires

Constance Squires’ latest novel, Low April Sun, based on the Oklahoma City bombing, was nominated for the National Book Award (2025). A winner of the Oklahoma Book award in 2012, Constance teaches a variety of courses in creative writing, with special emphasis on fiction (novel and short story) at UCO.

Constance is the author of two other novels, Along the Watchtower (2011) and Live from Medicine Park (2017), which was named one of Seven Candidates for the Great American Rock and Roll Novel by Electric Literature in 2018. In 2019, she published a short story collection, Hit Your Brights.

She regularly reads and speaks at national writers' conferences, and she will be the Special Guest Speaker at the 2026 Tornado Alley SinC Writers Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, March 21. Tune in to hear her read from her latest novel and discuss genre's place in storytelling.