Olivia Fantini

Olivia Fantini is a writer and educator. She completed an MFA in fiction at the University of Minnesota where she was awarded the Gesell Fellowship. Her short story “At the Airport” won Epiphany literary journal’s 2022 Breakout Writers Prize. Her work has also appeared in or is forthcoming from EPOCH, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Mississippi Review, So To Speak, Philadelphia Stories, Ecotone, and Pigeon Pages. In 2023, she was awarded a Creative Individuals Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is the grateful recipient of support from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and The Anderson Center artists residency. She is currently at work on a novel and a memoir.