Deep South Writers Series - Readings by Olivia Clare Friedman
Thu, Apr 10
|Cité des Arts
The Deep South Writers Series features readings by visiting writers and is hosted by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Creative Writing Program with support from the Friends of the Humanities and Cité des Arts.
Time and Location
Apr 10, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cité des Arts, 109 Vine St, Lafayette, LA 70501, USA
About The Event
Olivia Clare Friedman is the author of four books, most recently the book of poems An Arm Fixed to a Wing (2025) from LSU Press. She is also the author of the novel Here Lies (Grove Atlantic), the short story collection Disasters in the First World (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic), and the book of poems The 26-Hour Day (New Issues).
In fiction, she is a recipient of an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, The American Scholar, and elsewhere. Her novel Here Lies was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and won the 2022 Foreword Reviews INDIES Bronze Award. Here Lies was also a 2022 Great Reads Selection by the Women's National Book Association and was longlisted for The Crook's Corner Book Prize, a prize for best debut novel set in the American South.
In poetry, she is a recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Olive…