Olivia Gatwood

The second season of the podcast began March 4, 2020 with episode 41, "AMERICAN DIRT, REPRESENTATION & TECH BROS."

Life of the Party interrogates the author’s relationship to fear and true crime, as well as the media’s obsession with the murder of women. It was published in August 2019 by Penguin Random House.

As of December 2019, Gatwood resides in Santa Cruz, California, in the Unites States.

In December 2018, Gatwood started the podcast, Say More, with "her best friend and fellow poet", Melissa Lozada-Oliva, in which they interview each other on topics and answer emailed questions from listeners. It had presented its fortieth episode by the end of 2019.

Gatwood is the author of two poetry collections, New American Best Friend (2017) and Life of the Party (2019). She also contributed to Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice (2020, with Mahogany L. Browne and Elizabeth Acevedo). Her first novel, Whoever You Are, Honey, is set to be released by The Dial Press at Random House in early 2022.

In 2017, New American Best Friend was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry.

Gatwood graduated from the Pratt Institute's fiction program in 2015.

Olivia Gatwood (born February 23, 1992) is a poet, writer, activist, and educator on topics that include coming of age, feminism, gendered violence, & true crime.

Olivia Gatwood was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 23, 1992, the daughter of Jill and Byron Gatwood. She spent three years in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago where she began writing poetry at age 11 at the suggestion of a librarian. Gatwood's continued interest in poetry stemmed from her use of the art form as an outlet for her emotions; in an interview she explained, "teenagers have a lot of feelings and thoughts, but are often told that there's no space for those things to exist. But spoken word is the exact opposite. The more you can express, the better."