Career
Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies both nationally and internationally. Her latest books include Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2009),,, and The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (Pure Slush Press, 2014). She is also a founding member and the lead singer of the lounge metal band.
Stohlman was born in Washington District of Columbia and moved extensively as a child, living in Virginia, Kansas, Arizona, Germany, Spain and Nebraska where she spent 2 years in the Theater Department at the University of Nebraska.
She got her undergraduate degree in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado and her Master of Fine Arts from Naropa University. She has lived in Denver, Colorado since 1995.
In 2007 Stohlman began writing flash fiction and co-founded Fast Forward Press, a press dedicated to publishing flash fiction, where she remained until 2012. In 2008 she coined the term “flash novel” and in 2010 judged the first known flash novel contest for Fast Forward Press.
In 2013 she founded the Flashbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series in Denver, which she continues to curate.