Olivia J. Bennett is the award-winning and genre-bending author of contemporary, fantasy, and horror. Her most significant work is Casually Homicidal, a YA road trip thriller. In 2018, her flash fiction “Clutching Roses” was awarded a National Gold Medal, and her debut novel A Cactus In the Valley won a Midwest Regional Gold Key, both from Scholastic Art & Writing. Her creative nonfiction and short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies like Euphemism, Outrageous Fortune, Many Times, Many Ways, and Writing Out Our Twenties.
When not creating, Olivia is most likely baking cookies, binge-watching Naruto or Lost with her partner, or cuddling her two cats. She can be found somewhere between the corn and the big blue sky of Illinois.
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