Olivia Kate Cerrone is the author of The Hunger Saint, a historical novella which won an American Fiction Award and was praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a well-crafted and affecting literary tale.” Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, Psychology Today, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post, New South, the Berkeley Fiction Review, The MacGuffin, War, Literature and the Arts, Paterson Literary Review and elsewhere. She’s won the Crab Orchard Review's Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, the Mason's Road Literary Award, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and various other honors, including fellowships from the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (Scotland), the Ragdale Foundation, the VCCA, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, where she received a “Distinguished Fellowship” from the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of the MFA program at New York University, she teaches creative writing at GrubStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and in the First-Year Writing Program at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. Excerpts from her novel-in-progress, Displaced, were recently longlisted for both the 2022 DISQUIET Literary Prize and the Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest.