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Lori Ostlund

Lori Ostlund

American writer

Lori Ostlund is an American short story writer. She graduated from Minnesota State University, Moorhead and from the University of New Mexico with an M.A. She teaches at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco.

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As of 2023, she was the series editor of The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, an award she has previously won.[1]

Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Hobart, and Blue Mesa Review.

She lives in San Francisco, with her partner, the novelist Anne Raeff.[2]

Awards

Selected works

  • "Idyllic Little Bali", Prairie Schooner, Summer 2009
  • The Bigness of the World. University of Georgia Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8203-3409-7.
  • "All Boy", New England Review, 2009 (Best American Short Stories Selection 2010)[4]
  • "Bed Death", The Kenyon Review, 2011[5]
  • "The Gap Year", The Southern Review, 2012[6]
  • "A Little Customer Service", 2015 (Best American Short Stories Notable 2016)[7]
  • "The Bigness of the World", Bellingham Review, Issue 61
  • "And Down We Went", Five Chapters
  • After the Parade.

References

  1. [1]
    "Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction". Georgia Press. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Lori Ostlund". 27 July 2009.
  3. [3]
    "Home". ronajaffefoundation.org.
  4. [4]
    "All Boy by Lori Ostlund on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary". writingatlas.com. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Bed Death by Lori Ostlund on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary". writingatlas.com. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  6. [6]
    "The Gap Year by Lori Ostlund on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary". writingatlas.com. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  7. [7]
    "A Little Customer Service by Lori Ostlund on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary". writingatlas.com. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
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