Olivia Sawatzki is an Ohio-born, Los Angeles-based author and playwright. Her fiction and essays have been published in Bending Genres, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, L'Esprit Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her plays have been produced in Ohio and California. She recently published her first collection of fiction and creative nonfiction, Misanthropocene, with Bottle Cap Press. She lives in Echo Park, Los Angeles with her partner and their two cats.