Dori Ostermiller

Fiction Writer

Florence, MA
Massachusetts US

Author's Bio

Dori Ostermiller is the author of Outside the Ordinary World (Mira, 2010) and the founder and director of Writers in Progress, a literary arts center in Northampton, MA. Her stories have appeared in many literary journals, including the Bellingham Review, Bellowing Ark, Alligator Juniper, the MA Review and Chautauqua Literary Review, among others. She has taught writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts, Holyoke Community College, Westfield State College, Springfield College and Bay Path College. She lives and works in Northampton, MA with her husband and two daughters, and is working on a second novel.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Outside the Ordinary World (Mira Publishing House, 2010)
Prizes won: 

Walker Gibson Award, Tobias Wolf fiction award, MA Cultural Council Individual Artist's Grant

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Los Angeles
Raised in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
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Last update: Aug 01, 2013