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Dori Ostermiller

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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
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How do you Really let go??

I’ve always talked the talk when it comes to being ‘process oriented…’ “Just get it down,” I regularly say to my workshop participants. ”It’s your job to do the work, not judge it!” The phrases have become second-nature mantras to me, and yet, they are so incredibly difficult to practice…

I came a little closer to understanding the power of this idea recently, when a good friend convinced me to tak Read more of this blog post »
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Published on December 09, 2013 11:36 Tags: creativity, self-doubt, tennis, writing
Average rating: 3.48 · 743 ratings · 149 reviews · 1 distinct workSimilar authors
Outside the Ordinary World

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Leo Tolstoy
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

Virginia Woolf
“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own




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