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Dori Ostermiller

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April 04, 1964 in Los Angeles, The United States

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Dori Ostermiller was born in Los Angeles, a fifth-generation Californian. In her early 20's, she abandoned her path as a pre-med student to pursue an MFA in writing at the University of Massachusetts.

Since then, her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Bellingham Review, Roanoke Review, Alligator Juniper, Chautauqua Literary Journal and the Massachusetts Review. She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant, a Walker Gibson award and a Tobias Wolf Fiction award, and is the founder of Writers in Progress, a literary arts center in Western Massachusetts.

Her debut novel, Outside the Ordinary World, was an Indie-Next Notable book, an Ingram's Premier pick, and was long-listed for both the ML...more


A few weeks ago, in preparation for speaking on a panel about time management, I chatted up my writing buddies, and discovered some good and bad news about this time issue… The bad news, my friends, is that you’ll probably never have more time than you do now. During my informal interviews, I found that pretty much everyone is overscheduled, regardless of numbers of offspring, levels of employm... read more »
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Published on November 25, 2010 09:56 • 112 views • Tags: time, time-management, writing-mothers, writing-process
Average rating: 3.46 · 345 ratings · 95 reviews · 2 distinct works
Outside the Ordinary World
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Picture This by Jacqueline Sheehan
" Years ago, I had a story in my heart that needed to be told. At a peak moment, one of the people reading the manuscript wrote me to say that if I killed off a certain character, whose life was in peril at the end of the section she'd just read, sh... "
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The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
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Independent People by Halldór Laxness
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Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
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Father of the Rain by Lily King
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I adored this book. A gorgeous, heart-wrenching but never sentimental journey through the agony of dysfunctional family love. The story begins as a coming of age story, set within a Nixon-era marital split (pretty familiar territory for me!) and then...more
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