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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short fiction, This Life She’s Chosen (2005, Chronicle Books) and Swimming With Strangers (2008, Chronicle Books). Her short fiction and essays have appeared widely in journals, including One Story, The American Scholar, and Southern Humanities Review, among other publications. Kirsten has been the recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the 2016 Jack Straw Writers Program. She co-organizes the Seattle Writer Our Democracy/Hugo House quarterly “Write-In” series. She teaches creative writing and literature and lives with her family near Seattle, Washington.
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of the novel Elita (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press, 2025) and the forthcoming short story collection Outer Stars, which won the 2025 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and will be released in the fall of 2025. Her three previous collections of short fiction are What We Do With the Wreckage (2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction winner, University of Georgia Press in October, 2018), This Life She’s Chosen (2005, Chronicle Books) and Swimming With Strangers (2008, Chronicle Books). Her short fiction and essays have appeared widely in journals, including Conjunctions, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, North American Review, One Story, The American Scholar, Michigan Quarterly Review, Willow Springs, and Southern Humanities Review, among other publications. Kirsten has been the recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize and fellowships from MacDowell, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the 2016 Jack Straw Writers Program. She teaches creative writing and literature and lives with her family near Seattle, Washington.
