Olivia Clare is the author of a short story collection, Disasters in the First World, from Black Cat/Grove Atlantic. She is currently working on a novel, also forthcoming from Grove Atlantic. She is the author of a book of poems, The 26-Hour Day (New Issues, 2015). Her awards include a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award (in fiction), the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University (in poetry), a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and fellowships from the Tin House Writers' Workshop, MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. In 2014, she won an O. Henry Prize for her first published story, “Pétur.” Her stories have appeared in Granta, Southern Review, n+1, Boston Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, London Magazine, FIELD, and elsewhere. She has an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in literature with creative dissertation from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was a Black Mountain Institute Fellow. She is currently an assistant professor in creative writing at Sam Houston State University.
Olivia Clare Friedman
Studios
Phi Beta
Olivia Clare Friedman worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…