photo by Patrick Maus
Amanda Oliver is the author of OVERDUE: Reckoning With the Public Library. Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Vox, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been interviewed about her work for NPR, The Associated Press, Esquire, Electric Literature, and more.
Amanda has taught creative writing and composition at the University of California at Riverside and currently teaches online with Gotham Writers. She was a 2022 Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. She is also a recipient of the 2020 McQuern Award in Non-Fiction Writing, a 2019 Yefe Nof Residency, and a 2019 Mill House Residency, awarded by author Pam Houston.
Amanda holds BA and MLS degrees from SUNY Buffalo and a MFA from the University of California at Riverside. A Buffalo, New York native, she currently calls the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree home.