Constance Squires earned her Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University in 2005, where she taught creative writing, literature, and composition. She also served as editor of the international literary magazine the Cimarron Review from 2003 to 2005 and co-edited the first and second editions of Speculations: An Anthology for Reading, Writing and Research (Kendall Hunt Publishing). Her major areas of study are fiction writing and the modern period, with an emphasis on narrative theory, postcolonialism, and British novels of empire.

Short stories from Dr. Squires’s dissertation, American Thighs and Other Stories: A Collection of Short Stories With a Critical Introduction are forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly and have appeared in The Gingko Tree Review, Bayou, The Briar Cliff Review, The Arkansas Review, Eclectica, and the Chiron Review, and have been nominated for Best New American Voices 2005, the O. Henry Prize Series 2003, and twice for the Pushcart Prize (2003, 2005). Other stories in the collection were awarded the Bob Shacochis Award for the Short Story (2004), The Briar Cliff Review 2004 Fiction Award, Honorable Mention in the Atlantic Monthly 2003 Fiction Contest, third place in the 2005 Atlantic Monthly fiction contest, Honorable Mention from the AWP’s Intro Journals Project and named among storySouth's Million Writer's Award Notable Stories of 2005. A novel, Contact High, was a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship in 2004. Dr. Squires’s article, “‘A Just and Loving Gaze’: Iris Murdoch’s Theory of the Novel,” appears in the Fall 2005 issue (vol 3) of the Philological Review; she won the 2005 Leonard J. Leff Film Studies Award at Oklahoma State University for the essay “’Is it Late or Early?’: Time and Narrative in Nicholas Roeg’s Insignificance.”

She is a native Oklahoman and lives in Edmond with her husband, professor and novelist Dr. Steve Garrison. This spring she is teaching an upper level/graduate course in writing the short story and a course in the fundamentals of creative writing at UCO.