Lori Soderlind

visiting assistant professor

B.A., Lehigh University
M.F.A., Columbia University

Office: Palamountain 333
Phone: (518) 580-5150
Email: lsoderli@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests: 

• Creative nonfiction, memoir
• Narrative and literary journalism
• American studies
• Media studies

Course Taught:

• EN 219: Nonfiction
• EN 105: Memoir from the margins
• EN 105: Backstories: Why Things Are...

Publications:

• The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour (University of Wisconsin press, 2020)
• Chasing Montana: A Love Story (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)
• 66 Signs (Norton's "Best Creative Nonfiction" anthology)
• Nowhere in Buffalo (Bluestem Press, 2019)
• Frequent contributor to New York Times Sunday Book Review

Other publishing experience:

• Editor, Inkwell Journal (2016-2022)
  
• Editor, Columbia Journal (1995-97)
  
• Fulltime reporting/editing career for various newspapers and magazines

Selected Honors:

• Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards for memoir, 2020
  
• Out Magazine's "Out 100" notable artists, 2006 

Selected Essays:

• “Nowhere in Buffalo” (Bluestem Press, 2019)
• “66 Signs” (PMS Journal and Norton Anthology of Best Creative Nonfiction)
• “Hot Springs, Montana” (Nothing to Declare travel anthology, University of Wisconsin Press)

Book Reviews:

• Contributing reviewer, the New York Times Sunday Book Review
• Editor, Inkwell Literary Journal, 2016 - 2021