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  • Sheila M. Cronin
  • http://www.giftcounselorbook.com
  • Author of the award winning novel, The Gift Counselor, and Best of All Gifts, the sequel. Working on third installment in the gift counseling series. Tentative name: Lizzy's Gift. All the main characters in the novel are named for the streets of South Shore, the neighborhood where I grew up. My stories have appeared in Woman's World Magazine, The Golden Domer, Good Old Days Magazine, Spark and Kaleidoscope Magazine. I won the 2018 Joy Short Story contest and the 2019 Chicago Alignable’s SmallBiz Story contest. My book of short stories, Heart Shaped II, was released in January, 2020. My stories also appear in the Shades of Transition and Transformation Anthology (Write Volumes, 2020) and Shades of Chicago (Write Volumes, 2021). Wein and Eber published my poem "Ode to Fr. Mulcahy" in their 2020 anthology. BTW, I once had the privilege of having dinner with Madeleine L'Engle and her husband in her home on the island of St. Lucia. My mother, Beverly Review columnist Pat S. Cronin, was her longtime friend.
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