Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Author

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of the novel Elita and three collections of short fiction: What We Do with the Wreckage, which won the 2017 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; Swimming with Strangers; and This Life She’s Chosen. Her short fiction has been honored with a PEN / O. Henry Prize and her stories have appeared in The Sun, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. She has been the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Sewanee and has held residencies through the Jack Straw Writers Program and the Willa Cather Foundation. Kirsten lives with her family near Seattle, where she teaches English in a K–12 school.