About

H. L. Onstad’s fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Zyzzyva, Harvard Review, Solstice Magazine, and HA Journal, a publication of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Her fiction has been a finalist for Solstice Magazine’s Annual Literary Contest and longlisted for LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Short Fiction Award.

Her short story, A New Country for a New Woman, will be anthologized in Simpsonistas, Vol. 6 (Rare Bird, 2024). 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.