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Robert Olmstead is author of the novels America by Land, A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go, and Soft Water. He is also the author of a memoir
Stay Here With Me, as well as River Dogs, a collection
of short stories and the textbook Elements of the Writing Craft. His work has appeared in Mid-American
Review, McSweeney's, Willow Springs, Epoch, Idaho Review, Cutbank, Black Warrior Review, Greensboro Review,
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Story, Story, Ploughshares, The Graywolf Annual 4, Granta,
AKC Gazette, Faultline, Fiction Writer, Writers Digest, New York Times Book Review, Spin, Sports Afield.
He has been a regular book reviewer and food critic. He has received an Idaho Press Club Award, Honorable
Mention O. Henry, Honorable Mention Best American Short Stories, Black Warrior Review Fiction Award,
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship, an APEX award in journalism, National Endowment
for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Pennsylvania Council on
the Senior Arts Literature Fellowship and an Ohio Council for the Arts Literature Fellowship. His new novel,
COAL BLACK HORSE will be published by Algonquin Books March 2007. He is currently the Director of Creative
Writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Contact information:
Address:
English Department
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
Website:
http://english.owu.edu/olmstead_robert.htm
Email: RMOlmste@owu.edu
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