Olivia Fantini

Olivia Fantini grew up in Massachusetts and spent six years working in public schools as an English Language Development teacher. She recently 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 short story “Experimental Trials” received third place in the 2021 Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction from Philadelphia Stories, and her work has also appeared in or is forthcoming from TriQuarterly, So To Speak, and Ecotone. She is currently at work on a novel and a memoir.