About

H. L. Onstad’s short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Harvard Review, Solstice Magazine, and HA Journal, a publication of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Her short story, A New Country for a New Woman, appears in Simpsonistas, Vol. 6 (Rare Bird, October 2024).

Her fiction was a runner-up  for Solstice Magazine’s Annual Literary Contest, shortlisted for Uncharted’s Cinematic Short Story Contest, and longlisted for LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction.

She is the recipient of an Effie Lee Morris Award from the Women’s National Book Association, San Francisco chapter; an Advisory Board Award from Saint Mary’s College of California, as well as financial support from Community of Writers.