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olivia quella pintair

Olivia Q. Pintair is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor whose essays, interviews, and articles have appeared in Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, Tricycle Magazine, and other outlets. She is a co-founder and editor of Lullaby Machine, a digital lullaby library and e-magazine that explores rest through a cyberfeminist lens. Previously, Olivia worked as an editorial assistant at New England Review and as a journalist at VTDigger. She is an MFA candidate studying creative writing at New York University, where she also edits nonfiction for Washington Square Review. 

Olivia has written about books, art, the internet, and radical mutual aid organizing, among other topics. Her work across writing, dance, and film has been supported by Tin House, Middlebury College’s Kellogg Fellowship, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Vermont Arts Council, and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, where Olivia has taught deep ecology via the center’s Touching the Earth retreat. In writing and in general, Olivia is interested in the ocean, the internet, animism, hysteria, otherworlds, performance, secrets, and risk. She likes caves and stories about shapeshifting.