Olivia Kate Cerrone

Olivia Kate Cerrone is a writer and educator. Her fiction has appeared in various literary journals, including New South, the Berkeley Fiction Review, War, Literature and the Arts, Italian Americana and VIA: Voices in Italian Americana. She recently won a “Distinguished Fellowship” from the National Endowment for the Arts to attend the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, and has also won residency grants and fellowships to attend the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. Her forthcoming novel, The Hunger Saint received a 2014 “Conference Choice Award” by the SDSU Writers’ Conference. She holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University. Contact her at: Olivia.Cerrone@gmail.com