Olivia J. Bennett is the award-winning and genre-bending author of contemporary, fantasy, and horror fiction and the occasional creative nonfiction and poetry. Her most significant work is Casually Homicidal. When not creating, Olivia is most likely baking cookies, binge-watching Naruto or Lost with her partner, or cuddling her two cats, Baloo and Bagheera.
Books
Casually Homicidal
2022
What Hides in the Dark Vol.3 — Dust & Rubble
EJL Editing, 2025
Metamorphosis — Black-Market Beauty
Indie Fantasy Corner, 2025
Writing Out Our Twenties: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Thursday Night Writes
2024
A Cactus In the Valley—2018 Regional Gold Key Winner
2017
Selected work
8:23 p.m.
Frazzled Lit, 2026
Diary Of A Selfish People Pleaser
The Anti-Misogyny Club, 2025
All the same old ways and some news ones, too.
The Wandering Angel, 2025
Bone Spurs and Blueberry Pie—Pushcart Prize Nominee
FLARE Magazine, 2025
Ben "The Owl" West
Outrageous Fortune, 2024
Dads—Editor's Choice
Euphemism, 2023
Mars Rover
Euphemism, 2023
An Ode To The Dying Summer
Euphemism, 2022
Often I Dream of the Apocalypse
Euphemism, 2022
Dark, Silent Wood
Euphemism, 2022
Human, After All
Euphemism, 2022
Stacked Wishes
Euphemism, 2021
Colors
Euphemism, 2021
a soldier.
Euphemism, 2021
Clutching Roses—National Gold Medal Winner
Scholastic Art & Writing, 2018
Retribution Rails by Erin Bowman
Teen Ink, 2017
Lemniscate
Teen Ink, 2017