Authors: Lori Ostlund
After the Parade (47 page)
© DENNIS HEARNE
LORI OSTLUND
's collection of stories,
The Bigness of the World
, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. It was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and was named a Notable Book by The Story Prize. Her stories have appeared in
The Best American Short Stories
and
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories
, among other places. In 2009, Lori received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She lives in San Francisco.
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