Olivia Fitzsimons is a writer, originally from Nothern Ireland now living in Wicklow. 

Her debut novel, The Quiet Whispers Never Stop, (John Murray Press April 2022) was shortlisted for the 2022 Butler Literary Award. She is a current Dean Arts Studio Resident in Dublin and the recipient of the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris/Literature Ireland Residency for May 2023. As part of the Irish Writers Centre Evolution Programme she was selected to teach for a semester delivering classes to First Year BA Creative Writing Students in National University Galway and has given Master Classes for University College Cork, and spoken at a wide range of Literary Festivals and Online Literary Events. Olivia has been awarded grants from the Arts Council of Ireland and Northern Ireland for her writing, and her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, The Cormorant and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Short Works. She has a BA in History from Trinity College Dublin and spent her Erasmus year abroad at the Rijksuniversiteit in Groningen. After working in advertising in London she returned to Dublin to complete an MA in Film from DIT and worked in film production for several years. She has several screenplays in development and is currently working on a second novel.

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