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Escalator 2011/12 winner: BTI Larsson
BTI Larsson is one of ten winners from our 2011/12 Escalator Fiction Competition, as chosen by our judges and mentors. BTI Larsson will now enjoy a year’s worth of development from professional writers.
BTI Larsson
I’m originally Swedish and Icelandic, but I was raised trilingual and moved between Scandinavia and the U.S. nine times in my youth. As an adult, I added Scotland and England to the mix. Professionally, I’ve spent my time working with at-risk and offending youth as an ESL teacher, a conflict mediator, an advocate for survivors of sexual assault, and a PhD researcher. In 2009, I was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia, which permitted me to focus on my fiction full time for a while. I’m currently finishing a novel set in northern Sweden about the murder of a young boy and the children in his class, narrated by the boy’s schoolteacher.