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    Little Stranger
    Little Stranger
    Little Stranger
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    Little Stranger

    By Lisa Olstein

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  • Singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault’s 2010 album “Cold Satellite” was made in collaboration with Olstein—the lyrics are her fragments and poems.

  • Lisa Olstein, reading her poem “Radio Crackling, Radio Gone,” was featured as PBS NewsHour: http://video.pbs.org/video/2169489131/

  • In Spring 2012 Olstein co-starred with Robert Pinsky, Katie Petersen, and Lloyd Schwartz in a one-act play performed at Harvard University about Elizabeth Bishop’s correspondences with The New Yorker magazine.

  • Olstein received her MFA from UMass and worked with James Tate and Dara Weir.

  • Olstein lived for almost three years in Greece.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopper Canyon Press
    Release dateJul 3, 2013
    ISBN9781619320574
    Little Stranger
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    Lisa Olstein

    Lisa Olstein is a renowned author who specializes in poetry and nonfiction. She currently teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.

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