Feature Story

September 13, 2012 | By Ohio Wesleyan University

The Write Stuff

Robert Olmstead, professor of English and director of OWU’s Creative Writing Program, discusses his critically acclaimed trilogy of war-era novels on “Furious Fiction.”

Olmstead’s trilogy includes “The Coldest Night,” “Far Bright Star,” and “Coal Black Horse,” which earned a Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction. Additional accolades include “Far Bright Star” being named one of the Top Ten Westerns of the Decade by Booklistthe magazine of the American Library Association.