a.j.k. o'donnell is the wordsmith of three literary collections: Nicoteane and Other Foolish Mistakes (2015), This Void Beckons (2018), and Amaranthine (2022).
o’donnell received a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2023.
She is an End of Life Doula—having trained with the International End of Life Doula Association and received an End of Life Doula professional certificate from the University of Vermont.
Currently, o’donnell is studying for an MDiv degree at Harvard Divinity School.
O'DONNELL IN 2023
“My literary career will always be focused on investigating the human experience in an intimate, yet universal, fashion. I hope to remain a constant voice of the mundane, the unconsidered, and the improbably prophetic events of the human narrative”