M. M. Olivas

M. M. Olivas is an alumna of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, the Lambda Literary Workshop, and has an MFA in creative writing and English literature from San Jose State University. An Ignyte finalist, and featured on the Stoker’s longlist, Olivas’ fiction has appeared to critical acclaim in Uncanny, Apex, Weird Horror, and Bourbon Penn Magazine. As a trans, first-generation Chicana horror writer, Olivas explores the intersection of queer and diasporic experiences in her fiction. Her debut novel, Sundown in San Ojuela, portrays how Mexico’s Indigenous and colonial pasts haunt the present. Olivas currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and, in her free time, collects transforming robots.
More information about Olivas and her fiction can be found at olivasthewriter.wtf.