Oliver Brickman, they/them

Author Biography

Oliver Brickman is a queer Jewish writer and performer invested in liberatory futures and reckoning with ghosts. The winner of the Split This Rock Poetry Prize, they have also received support from Hedgebrook, the Lambda Literary Foundation, The Yiddish Book Center, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and The Bloedel Reserve. Recent work has appeared in Narrative, Adroit, The Indiana Review, On the Boards' Performance Lab, and in the anthology Ghosts of Seattle Past. Oliver holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and lives in Seattle, where they work in a library, take care of 150 houseplants, and teach writing to youth and adults.

Region

North Puget Sound