Olivia Dawson, originally from London, worked in fashion PR before living in Brazil and France where she worked as an EFL teacher. She now lives between Lisbon and London and is Poetry Society Stanza rep for the Lisbon area. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University.

Olivia’s poem for Time and Time, Solstice Shorts Festival 2019, Points of Interest, will be performed at Clydebank, Greenwich, Hastings, Maryport and Peterhead and published in the Time and Tide anthology.

Olivia has poems published in a variety of UK magazines and anthologies including Magma, Under the Radar, Chronicles of Eve (Paper Swans Press) and Poetry News, and online with And Other Poems and Visual Verse.