Lance Olsen
Olsen is author of 11 novels, one hypertext, four critical studies, four short-story collections, a poetry chapbook, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. His novels include Calendar of Regrets (2010), Head in Flames (2009) Nietzsche’s Kisses (2006), and 10:01 (Print version 2005; hypermedia version: Iowa Review Web, 2005).
His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Conjunctions, Village Voice, BOMB, McSweeney’s, and Best American Non-Required Reading.
Olsen is an N.E.A. (National Endowment for the Arts) fellowship and Pushcart prize recipient, and former governor-appointed Idaho writer-in-residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His work has been translated into Italian, Polish, Turkish, and Finnish. He has taught at the universities of Idaho, Kentucky, Iowa, Virginia, on summer- and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, and on a Fulbright in Finland. Olsen currently teaches experimental theory and practice at the University of Utah. He serves as chair of the board of directors at Fiction Collective Two; FC2 is one of America’s best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities.
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