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Lori Ostlund | |
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| Alma mater | Minnesota State University Moorhead, University of New Mexico |
| Genre | Short story fiction |
| Notable awards | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction |
Lori Ostlund (born March 13, 1965) is an American short story writer and novelist. She is the author of two story collections, The Bigness of the World (2009) and Are You Happy? (2025), and the novel After the Parade (2015).
She grew up in a town of 400 people in central Minnesota, where her parents owned a hardware store.[ citation needed ] She graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead and from the University of New Mexico with an M.A.
Since 2023, she has been the series editor of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, an award she has previously won. [1] She has taught ESL and Creative Writing. She currently works as a freelance developmental editor.
Her work has appeared in many journals, including The Georgia Review , New England Review , The Kenyon Review , Prairie Schooner , Bellingham Review , Hobart , and Blue Mesa Review. Her story "All Boy" appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2010 and "Just Another Family" appeared in the The Best American Short Stories 2024 . She has also received an O. Henry Award.
She has lived in New Mexico, Spain, Malaysia, North Carolina, and California.[ citation needed ] She met her wife, the writer Anne Raeff, in New Mexico in 1989, and they have lived in San Francisco, starting 2005. [2]
| Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2009 | The Bigness of the World | California Book Award | First Fiction | Won | [3] |
| Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | — | Won | |||
| Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award | Fiction | Won | [4] | ||
| 2010 | Edmund White Award | — | Won | [5] | |
| Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award | — | Longlisted | [6] | ||
| Lambda Literary Award | Lesbian Debut Fiction | Finalist | [7] | ||
| William Saroyan International Prize for Writing | Fiction | Shortlisted | |||
| 2015 | After the Parade | Center for Fiction First Novel Prize | — | Finalist | [8] |
| 2016 | Ferro-Grumley Award | — | Finalist | [9] | |
| 2017 | Simpson Family Literary Prize | — | Shortlisted | [10] |
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