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Event Description
Temple University Creative Writing Program Poets and Writers Series presents renowned author Lance Olsen. Lance Olsen was born in 1956 and received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He is the author of eleven novels, one hypertext, four critical studies, four short story collections, a poetry chapbook and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as the editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. Olsen is an NEA fellowship and Pushcart Prize recipient and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. He currently teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. He serves as chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two and is fiction editor at Western Humanities Review. With his wife, assemblage-artist and filmmaker Andi Olsen, he divides his time between Salt Lake City and the mountains of central Idaho. |
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Temple sponsor organization:
Gradute English/Creative Writing Program |
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