Hans Ostrom

Hans Ansgar Ostrom (born January 29, 1954) is an American scholar, currently a professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Puget Sound (1983–present). He is known for his authorship of various books on African-American studies and creative writing, and novels including Three to Get Ready, Honoring Juanita, and Without One, as well as The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976–2006.

Works

• The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006 (Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2006) ISBN 978-1-59858-102-7
• Honoring Juanita: A Novel (Congruent Angle Press, 2010).
• Co-editor, with J. David Macey, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005): 5 volumes.
• A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002);
• Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction (New York: Twayne, 1993);
• With Wendy Bishop and Katharine Haake, Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively (New York: Longman, 2001)
• Subjects Apprehended (Johnstown, Ohio: Pudding House Press, 2000);
• Three to Get Ready (Oakland: Cliffhanger, 1991).
• Co-editor, with Wendy Bishop, The Subject Is Story: Essays for Writers and Readers (Boyton-Cook/Heineman, 2003).
• "To War Again" (poem), Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought
• "The Green Bird" (short story), Ploughshares (Winter 1986)
• "Guest Post: Hans Ostrom on the Next Decade in Book Culture", Critical Mass, January 8, 2010
• Without One: A Novel (Congruent Angle Press, 2012).
• With William Haltom, Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy, New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2018. ISBN 9781351013871
• With Wendy Bishop, Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994. ISBN 978-0814107164
• With J. David Macey, Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History. Westport: Greenwood Publishers, 2023.ISBN 978-1-4408-7535-9

References

Sources

• "Hans Ostrom", Contemporary Authors, New Series, Vol. 43 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1998)
• Choice, December 1993, review of Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction, p. 605
• S. A. Vega Garcia, Choice, October 2002, review of A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia, p. 257
• Review of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, Library Journal, 2005
• Review of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, School Library Journal, March 2005
• "Hans Ostrom", in Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers (New York: Poets and Writers, 1998–present)
• Wendy Bishop, Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem (New York: Longman, 1999); includes several poems by Ostrom
• Will Hochman, "The Ongoing Legacy of Wendy Bishop Is In Our Stories: Review of The Subject is Story: Essays for Writers and Readers, Edited by Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom", Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Literature, and Writing (2004)
• David Herbert Donald, "Good Race Men: Review of Short Stories of Langston Hughes", The New York Times, September 1, 1996
• Greenwood Press: Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature (2005), edited by Hans Ostrom and J David Macey: excerpts from multiple reviews: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR2972.aspx
• ERIC abstract of Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy, edited by Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom.
• Rita Dove, "Poet's Choice", Washington Post (column by Rita Dove), May 20, 2001, includes "Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven", a poem by Hans Ostrom.