title: Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Fiction Writing
author: Lance Olsen
description: Lance Olsen, former Idaho Writer-in-Residence and 1998 Pushcart Prize winner, was raised in a jungle compound in Venezuela, where his father worked for an oil company, and in the hermetically sealed, climate-controlled malls of northern New Jersey, where he seldom breathed unfiltered air. He received his BA (with honors, 1978) in English and Journalism from the University of Wisconsin, his MFA (1980) from the renowned Iowa Writers Workshop, and his MA (1982) and PhD (1985) from the University of Virginia. Since then he has taught at universities in Kentucky, London, and Oxford. In 1990 he joined the faculty at the University of Idaho, where he is professor of contemporary fiction, British and American literature, and creative writing. He lives with his wife on an eighty-acre farm near Deary.
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