Olivia Clare

Olivia Clare was born in New York in 1982 and raised in Louisiana. She earned a BA in English from University of California, Berkeley, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an MA from the University of Southern California, and a PhD from the University of Nevada, where she was a Black Mountain Institute Fellow.

Clare is the author of the short story collection Disasters in the First World (2017) and the poetry collection The 26-Hour Day (2015). Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Southern Review, London Magazine, Poetry, FIELD, and other journals. 

Her honors include a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Olive B. O’Connor fellowship from Colgate University. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Southern Mississippi.