Lance Olsen

Fiction Writer

Salt Lake City, UT
Utah US
Email: 
lance.olsen@utah.edu
Website: 
www.lanceolsen.com

Author's Bio

Lance Olsen is author of more than 20 books of and about innovative fiction, including the novels Calendar of Regrets (FC2, 2010), Head in Flames (Chiasmus, 2009), Anxious Pleasures (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007), and Nietzsche's Kisses (FC2, 2006). His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Village Voice, Time Out New York, BOMB, Gulf Coast, McSweeney's, and Best American Non-Required Reading. He teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Calendar of Regrets (FC2, 2011)
,
Head in Flames (Chiasmus, 2009)
,
Anxious Pleasures (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007)
,
Nietzsche's Kisses (FC2, 2006)
,
10:01 (Chiasmus Press, 2005)
,
Girl Imagined by Chance (FC2, 2002)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Born in: 
Englewood
Raised in: 
Englewood, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Jul 12, 2010