H. L. Onstad’s fiction has been longlisted for the Virginia Woolf Short Fiction Award and Solstice Magazine’s Annual Literary Contest. Her short story A New Country for a New Woman will appear in the anthology Simpsonistas vol. 6 (Rare Bird, 2024). Her essays and reviews have appeared in Harvard Review and HA Journal, a publication of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. She received an Effie Lee Morris Award from the Women’s National Book Association (San Francisco chapter) and support from Community of Writers to attend their summer writers workshop in fiction. She lives in Northern California where she is the communications director for New Literary Project.
