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) 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. With Wendy Bishop, Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994. With J. David Macey, Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History. Westport: Greenwood Publishers, 2023.