Lori Ostlund is the author of Are You Happy? (Astra House, 2025), which includes “The Stalker.” Her novel After the Parade (Scribner, 2015) was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick of the Month and a New York Times Editors’ Choice title. The Bigness of the World (University of Georgia Press, 2009) received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, a California Book Award, and the Edmund White Award. Ostlund is series editor of the Flannery O’Connor Award.
