Olivia Clare Friedman

 

The TV series I was on, Any Day Now, is now showing on Start TV, every morning at 9 AM CST. Here's a link to an interview I did with Start TV about the show.

 

My novel Here Lies was chosen as a 2022 Great Group Read by the Women’s National Book Association.

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Here Lies was Longlisted for The Crook's Corner Book Prize, 

a prize for best debut novel set in the American South.

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You can listen to me read from Here Lies at this link.

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The Bitter Southerner included Here Lies as part of their 2022 Summer Reading Roundup.

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I was featured in the article "Atmospheric Pressure: New Books on Climate Change" by Liza Monroy in Publishers Weekly.

 

I recently won a 2022 Pushcart Prize for my short story "The Real Thing," originally published in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. The story is anthologized in The Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of The Small Presses 2022.

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Sierra Magazine included me on their list of "13 Female 'Cli-Fi' Writers Who Are Inspiring A Better Future."

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Disasters in the First World was a finalist for the 2017 Texas Book Awards.

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Book Riot included my book of stories in their article "What Is Cli-Fi? A Beginner's Guide to Climate Fiction."

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My flash fiction piece "Into The Fog," published in Monkeybicycle, was chosen as one of Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2018.

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Bennington Review interviewed me recently. We talked about dreams, friendships, and Lucia Berlin.

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I wrote about nostalgia and home for Ecotone's blog "On Location."

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Disasters in the First World is included on Read It Forward's list of

"6 Sensational Short Story Collections."

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I wrote about tracking my writing time for The Story Prize blog.

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I won an O. Henry Prize for my short story "Petur," originally published in Ecotone. The story is anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014.

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I compared Disasters in the First World to strange things for Monkeybicycle's If My Book series.

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I have a recent interview up at Midwestern Gothic.

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I'm a contributing editor for Mississippi Review and The Texas Review.

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Nevada Public Radio interviewed me for Desert Companion.

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I collaborated with composer Peter Van Zandt Lane and choreographer Kate Ladenheim on a piece called GLASS, which was performed by The People Movers in March 2017.

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