Brenna O’Hara

Brenna O’Hara graduated from the University of Oklahoma with degrees in English and biochemistry in 2020. She enjoys reading, volunteering, and playing in musical ensembles in her spare time. She is currently pursuing her MA in English at OU and can be found interning at World Literature Today.

Crime and Punishment on the Rosebud: David Weiden’s Winter Counts

August 18, 2021 | Brenna O’Hara

A dizzying debut with something to say and a story to tell, David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020) takes crime novel conventions and recasts them in a fresh, uniquely Native...
Transcending Borders: A Graphic Translation Conversation with Andrea Rosenberg

December 17, 2020 | Brenna O’Hara

The Spring 2020 issue of World Literature Today explored a variety of works in the increasingly popular genre of graphic nonfiction. Now, as the year comes to a close, use of graphic media i...
The Lessons of Hiroshima: Lesley M.M. Blume’s Fallout and Twentieth-Century Literary Journalism’s Greatest Coup

October 6, 2020 | Brenna O’Hara

Lesley M.M. Blume / Photo © Oberto Gili / Courtesy of HMH Books “The opportunity to learn from history’s tragedies has not yet passed.”—Lesley Blume Released on the seventy-f...