Lori Ostlund

Lori Ostlund (born 1965 ) is an American writer . She is best known for her short story collection The Bigness of the World and her novel After the Parade .

Life

Lori Ostlund graduated with an MA from Minnesota State University Moorhead and the University of New Mexico . After graduation, she taught English in New Mexico, Spain and Malaysia and worked as an antique dealer. Today she teaches at The Art Institute of California in San Francisco, where she also lives.

Awards

• 2008: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 2009: Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award
• 2010: California Book Award
• 2010: Edmund White Award

Works

• The Bigness of the World: Stories. University of Georgia Press 2009
• After the Parade: A novel., Scribner 2015;
  • German first edition: Life is a strange place. From the American English by Pieke Biermann . dtv , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-28077-8

Web links

• Author's page Simon and Schuster (engl.)
• Author page dtv