Photos with dog: Amy Stern Dog: @lilythewonderbeast  (instagram)

Photos with dog: Amy Stern
Dog: @lilythewonderbeast (instagram)

high resolution selfie headshot, credit: Liese O’Halloran Schwarz

high resolution selfie headshot, credit: Liese O’Halloran Schwarz

high resolution selfie headshot, credit: Liese O’Halloran Schwarz

high resolution selfie headshot, credit: Liese O’Halloran Schwarz

Photos with dog: Amy Stern Dog: @lilythewonderbeast (instagram)

Photos with dog: Amy Stern
Dog: @lilythewonderbeast (instagram)

About the Author

Liese 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, eventually returned to writing, and published her second novel, The Possible World , in June 2018. Her third novel, What Could Be Saved, published in January 2021.

She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is at work on the next book.

Want a virtual visit to your book club? Email Liese

Literary Representation: Laura Gross


Articles/Interviews/Videos:

  • UVA Corner Book Club discussion of The Possible World (video)

    July 28, 2021 - Moderated Q&A with Liese and University of Virginia Alumni Association’s Corner Book Club delves into writing The Possible World (spoilers! specifics about the plot of the book are discussed), balancing medicine and writing, and a bit about Liese’s time at University of Virginia medical school.

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  • Write On Wednesday (Q&A)

    Leslie Lindsay (Always With a Book) asks questions about themes in WHAT COULD BE SAVED, and Liese discusses how success is elusive, her childhood in Thailand, the healing power of connection, and more.

  • Both Sides Book Club (video)
    The founders of Both Sides Book Club, Debbie and Catie, present episode 24 of their interview series — “What Could be Saved” where they talk to the author in her home in the USA about childhood nostalgia, about living an Ex-Pat life and about the bonds between Siblings.

  • The Blue and Yellow Kitchen (video)

    Host Stephanie Weaver makes a coconut-curry shrimp bite inspired by the book’s setting and the legendary hostess Genevieve at the heart of the novel, while author Liese O’Halloran Schwarz reads from a bit of the book and answers some questions about the creation of What Could Be Saved and the writing process.

  • Interview, Reading with Robin’s Pre-Publication Extravaganza

    November 14/15, 2020: 36 authors, 36 books publishing in 2021, 1 brave host. Author segments are each about 25 minutes, and each accessible as a separate playback. Segment with Liese O’Halloran Schwarz segment was recorded November 14th at 11:30 AM ET.