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.
As of 2023, she was the series editor of The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, an award she has previously won.
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.
Awards
2008 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
2010 Edmund White Award
Selected works
"Idyllic Little Bali", Prairie Schooner, Summer 2009
"All Boy", New England Review, 2009 (Best American Short Stories Selection 2010) "Bed Death", The Kenyon Review, 2011 "The Gap Year", The Southern Review, 2012 "A Little Customer Service", 2015 (Best American Short Stories Notable 2016) "The Bigness of the World", Bellingham Review, Issue 61 "And Down We Went", Five Chapters After the Parade.
References
External links
"Author's website" "Interview - Lori Ostlund", Story in Literary Fiction
American short story writers
Writers from Minnesota
Minnesota State University Moorhead alumni
University of New Mexico alumni
Living people
American lesbian writers
American women short story writers
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women writers