Lance Olsen is the author of more than 30 books of and about innovative writing, including, most recently, An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies (Dzanc), Absolute Away (Dzanc), Shrapnel: Contemplations (Anti-Oedipus), and Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie (FC2). He’s currently working on a novel tentatively titled The Room Without Dreams about the history of surgery.