![]() ![]() I believe that most people are never truly saying aloud what they are thinking, and that has influenced the way that I think about bottom story and subtext as well as dialogue. It has shaped the way I think about characters and dialogue (I love restrained dialogue) and humor. Though I did not know it when I started writing and really only learned this from readers and reviewers, I am very much a midwestern writer, even though I left the Midwest almost 35 years ago. ![]() How do you see those being linked in your work? Do you see those themes at work in your own life? Two major themes of After the Parade seem to be place and identity. ![]() We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Ostlund and discuss her writing process as well as the themes that can be often found in her work. from the University of New Mexico and currently teaches at The Art Institute of California-San Francisco, as well as Regis University in Denver, CO. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous other publications. ![]() Ostlund is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. The Bigness of the World was also shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was named a Notable Book by The Short Story Prize. This year’s fiction contest judge, Lori Ostlund, is the author of the novel, After the Parade and the short story collection, The Bigness of the World, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. ![]()
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