OLIVIA CRANDALL

Olivia Crandall is a writer from the Midwest who currently lives in Los Angeles.

You can find her work in Vulture, Cake Zine, The Masters Review, Bustle, InStyle, Points in Case, and her newsletter—Stupid & Cute, among other publications.

Olivia’s writing has been nominated for the 2027 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and was a finalist for the Cecilia Joyce Johnson Award for Short Fiction from the Key West Literary Seminar. She has received support from McCormack Writing Center (FKA Tin House), Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency.

She is represented by Hannah Strouth at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.

You can find her editing in the zine Not Here to Make Friends and her teaching at Index. If you’re looking for her copywriting, creative direction, and/or brand strategy work, you can find more info here.