About Olivia

Olivia completed her BA in English at the University of Prince Edward Island and her MA in English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She first visited Newfoundland in the summer of 2015 for a student writing residency on Fogo Island. She returned in the summer of 2017 for another residency with the Tilting Recreation and Cultural Society (TRACS).

In 2020, The Blue Moth Motel (October 2021 Breakwater Books) was shortlisted for the Newfoundland and Labrador Credit Union Fresh Fish Award. Olivia’s short story “Effie” was shortlisted for the Room Fiction Contest in 2017.

In 2016, Olivia won the PEI Battle Tales with her story “Watercolour”, which is published online for Cargo Literary Magazine. Additionally, in 2015, her story “Harriet” won first place in the Maritime Electric Short Story Award at the Cox & Palmer Island Literary Awards on PEI.

In May, 2022, The Blue Moth Motel won the PEI Book Award for Fiction.

In addition to writing, Olivia has worn many hats. She has worked as a summer camp counselor, a bookseller, a waitress, a barista, a student newspaper editor, and a volunteer coordinator.

Originally from the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Olivia now lives in London, UK where she works as a bookseller.