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Lori Ostlund Biography & Facts

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 The Bigness of the World. University of Georgia Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8203-3409-7. "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. Discover the Lori Ostlund popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lori Ostlund books.

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  • Whiskey Girl synopsis, comments

    Whiskey Girl

    Melissa Belle

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    Teach Me

    Cassandra Dean

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    The Four Loves

    C. S. Lewis

    The Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human loveaffection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candi...

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    The Art of War

    Sun Tzu

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    Assisting the Bosshole

    Kristin MacQueen

    No hot water? Check Missed the train? Check Broke my heel? Check Dropped my coffee? Check My first day of my new job can’t possibly go worse, right? Wrong. When I meet Parker Scott...

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    The Honeymoon Homicide

    J. R. Mathis & Susan Mathis

    Enjoy this SmallTown Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple I'm Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest in a smalltown parish who never expected this . . . When I came...

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    Silver Santa

    Lacey Silks

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    Think and Grow Rich

    Greg Habstritt & Napoleon Hill

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    The Target

    Lexy Timms

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    Teased by Fire

    Molly O'Hare

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    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen

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    Dark Psychology and Manipulation

    Margaret Morrison

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    The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Roma Cordon

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    Emily Brontë

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    The Seduction Series Boxset

    Roxy Sloane

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    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

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    Dream Psychology

    Sigmund Freud

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    Always Yours

    Claire Raye

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    A Green Kind of Witch

    Sierra Cross

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    The Next Girl

    Carla Kovach

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    The Stoic Mind

    Addy Osmani & GoLimitlesss

    Discover the timeless wisdom of Stoicism in a modern context with "The Stoic Mind," an enlightening visual guide by Addy Osmani and GoLimitlesss. This rich exploration co...

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    Becoming Lady Dalton

    Carrie Lomax

    A dance of desire and deceit... In the glittering world of London's ton, Mrs. Viola Cartwright revels in her newfound freedom as a lady of leisureuntil a series of jewel theft...

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    A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens

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    Get Lucky

    Lila Monroe

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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle

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    School of Potential

    W.J. May

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    Man In The Water

    Jon Hill

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    Death at Hazel House

    Betty Rowlands

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    Hard Love

    Peyton Banks

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    Masters of Restraint

    Ines Johnson

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    Rogue Alpha

    Kimber White

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    Inception of Gold

    Lexy Timms

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    Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott

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    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum

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    You Are Kind

    Michael Gordon

    A little kindness goes a long way. How can you help encourage your kids to be kind from a young age? Teach kindness to preschoolers Acts of kindness can be fun, easy, and make a ...

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    The Odyssey

    Homer

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    Holy Bible

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    The 2013 edition of the Holy Bible contains all of the study aids contained in the 1979 edition and includes revisions to the study aids, several new photos, updated maps, and adju...

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    The Icing on the Cake

    Linda Seed

    She’s a baker without a kitchen. He’s got a double oven to spare. It’s a recipe for success, until his mother starts stirring up trouble … Cassie Jordan has a sweet dream to open a...

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    Pretty Little Lies

    Ivy Thorn

    Four years ago, Nicolo Marchetti took my innocence. But he left me with something else Nicolo almost took everything from me. My virginity, my reputation, and very nearly my future...

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    Law of Attraction

    Jordan Hollis

    How to Finally Overcome the Hurdles of Manifesting Proven, effective and enjoyable ways to help you manifest faster… Right now, think of something that makes you successful. If you...

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    Meditations

    Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

    Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.

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    Coffee Girl

    Sophie Sinclair

    Mackenzie "Kiki" Forbes finds herself in a pickle. Either become her snarky sister's nanny, or move halfway across the country to work as assistanttothestylist of a ...

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    Awaken Me

    Jenna Jacob

    He was more than a ghost haunting my dreams…he was real. By day, I’m Julianna Garrett …a prim, proper accountant. By night, I’m tormented by dreams of an alpha, ambereyed Adonis wh...

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    His Own Heaven

    Jennie Kew

    Winner of the 2021 Passionate Plume Award for BDSM Romance Finalist in the 2021 Stiletto Contest for Contemporary Romance He taught her to trust, she taught him to love. ​ Lucy Bar...

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    His Girl Next Door

    Khardine Gray

    From USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sizzling hot single dad romance you won't want to miss. No strings attached fun with the ubergorgeous single d...

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    Enemies With Benefits

    Roxie Noir

    I don’t love him. I don’t even like him. I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to...

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    Christmas in Sweetbriar Cove

    Melody Grace

    Celebrate the holidays in Sweetbriar Cove with this festive romance collection, containing two sizzling smalltown holiday stories perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey, Sophie Kinsella...

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    Eternal

    W.J. May

    She will fight for what is hers. When the king is murdered, Katerina, his only daughter, must flee for her life. She finds herself on a strange and dangerous path. Alone for the fi...

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    Caught Up with the Captain

    Kait Nolan

    Can a retired naval commander and the love he left behind overcome a 34yearold secret to find their way to a second chance? Captain Mitchell Greyson is a man who believes in duty. ...