Local college professor, San Antonio Current columnist and editor, and employee at the public library, Lyle Rosdahl manages to juggle each vocation and still find time to put pen to paper for his personal writing. Additionally, Rosdahl journals, communicates, and encourages other writers via his website. Incorporating both Oulipo, a literary technique that advocates constraints in writing, and flash fiction, Rosdahl continues to produce innovative and inspiring pieces for the writing community.

Rosdahl will conduct the class, Structural Biomimicry in Short Prose, during Gemini Ink’s Summer Literary Festival. The class will be held the week of July 12 through July 15. Class participants will examine some of nature’s processes and models and use those insights to create similar structures within their writing.

Gemini Ink intern Megan Peak interviewed Rosdahl and discussed his writing process, fascination with Oulipo, and what inspires him to write.

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