Hans Ostrom
- Actor
- Writer
Hans Ostrom is a screenwriter, novelist, poet, songwriter, and scholar.
With Michael Kerr, he has written "NAPA," based on his novel Three To
Get Ready. "NAPA" stars Rose McGowan and is set to be released in 2012.
Ostrom has acted in the film Cliche, directed by Ben Shelton. Ostrom's
other books include Honoring Juanita (novel, 2010), A Langston Hughes
Encyclopedia, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature
(edited with J. David Macey), The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems
1976-2006, Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively (with Kate Haake and
Wendy Bishop), and Lives and Moments: An Introduction to Short Fiction.
Ostrom is a member of the PEN/America Center and the National Book
Critics Circle. He earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English from the
University of California. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Uppsala
University, Sweden. Ostrom studied screen-writing with Tom Rickman at
the Squaw Valley Writers Conference.
