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Ian Woollen has lived in Bloomington, Indiana for almost forty years. That was not the original plan, but it has turned out okay. He walks to work, writes, bikes, gardens and sings in his wife's church choir. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of mags, including Panorama, The North Dakota Quarterly, Failbetter, The Westchester Review, The Massachusetts Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fiction Southeast, Split Lip, and The Mid-American Review, from which he received a Sherwood Anderson Prize. A collection of short stories, IN AMONG FATHER'S TIES, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press.
Novel #1, STAKEOUT ON MILLENNIUM DRIVE (Ramble House) won a 2006 Best Books of Indiana Award. Novel #2, HOOSIER LIFE & CASUALTY(Casperian Books, 2009). Novel #3, UNCLE ANTON'S ATOMIC BOMB (Coffeetown Press, 2014) was a Finalist for the Balcones Fiction Prize. Novel #4, MUIR WOODS OR BUST (Coffeetown Press, 2017) won an INDIES Bronze Award (for Humor/Satire). Novel #5, SISTER CITY (Coffeetown Press, 2021) - “A delightful book for our times showing us that no matter how many walls humans put up between each other, we are inter-connected by history, by land, and by the best in us.”- Ivelisse Rodriguez, PEN/Faulkner Finalist, author of LOVE WAR STORIES.