Events

Thurs 9/23  7pm-8pm Lori Ostlund, UNC-CH Kenan Visiting Writer In Residence, reads from the paperback release of her short story collectionThe Bigness of the World Lori Ostlund, has been selected as this year’s Kenan Visiting Writer in Residence at UNC-Chapel Hill.    She reads at Flyleaf as her latest book-- The Bigness of the World-- is released in paperback.   This book has won the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award, the California Book Award for First Fiction and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and is also a finalist for a Lambda Award, shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize for Writing, and long listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. Additionally, one of the stories has been selected for the 2010 Best American Short Stories by Richard Russo.   "Ostlund's artful prose is playfully complex and illuminating, evocative and unsentimental. . . . Each piece is sublime." —Publishers Weekly Lori's stories have appeared in New England Review, Bellingham Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Hobart, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals.  In 2009, Ostlund was one of six emerging women writers honored with a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She has a B.A. from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a M.A. in English from the University of New Mexico, and currently lives in San Francisco with her partner, the novelist Anne Raeff, where she teaches developmental English and story writing at The Art Institute of California–San Francisco