Olivia Van Guinn (they/them) is a Vietnamese-Canadian writer and poet from Northeast Calgary. They have received a BA from the University of Calgary, where they also received the Kathleen and Russell Lane Award for their debut manuscript. Van Guinn’s writing is often metafictional, dark, and absurd.

Van Guinn’s writing is published or forthcoming in the /temz/ review, The Queen’s Quarterly, Plenitude, The Prairie Journal, and more. Their debut novel is upcoming with At Bay Press.

Olivia Van Guinn is currently the community manager for The Stygian Society, a gothic small press based in Montreal.