Lori Ostlund (born March 13, 1965) is an American short story writer and novelist.
She is the author of two story collections, The Bigness of the World (2009) and Are You Happy?
She grew up in a town of 400 people in central Minnesota, where her parents owned a hardware store.
She has lived in New Mexico, Spain, Malaysia, North Carolina, and California.
[citation needed] She met her wife, the writer Anne Raeff, in New Mexico in 1989, and they have lived in San Francisco, starting 2005.