Writing
Olsen is author of eleven novels, one hypermedia text, four critical studies, four short-story collections, a poetry chapbook, and two anti-textbooks about experimental writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Conjunctions, Fiction International, Iowa Review, Village Voice, Time Out New York, BOMB, Hotel Amerika, and Best American Non-Required Reading. He is known for his fictional biographies (examples of historiographic metafiction), for which he does extensive historical research. He is a Guggenheim and an N.E.A. fellowship recipient, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and was the governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence from 1996-1998. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and his work has been translated into Italian, Polish, Turkish, and Finnish. He will be the Mary Ellen van der Heyden Berlin Prize in Fiction Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin from January through May 2013.
The hypertext version of his novel 10:01, created in collaboration with multimedia artist Tim S. Guthrie, was published by the Iowa Review Web in 2005 and included in the Electronic Literature Organization Collection: Volume One.
Lance Olsen’s story “News Feed| Status Updates| Photos| Posted Items| Live Feed” won an &NOW award in 2009 and was published in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. Olsen is a regular participant in the biennial &NOW Festival, a celebration of experimental and innovative writing, and has collaborated with a board member of &NOW, Davis Schneiderman, on a series of short works.
Olsen's wife, assemblage-artist Andi Olsen, and he divide their time between the mountains of central Idaho and Salt Lake City.
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