olivia quella pintair

Olivia Q. Pintair is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Cleveland Review of Books, Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, Tricycle Magazine, and other outlets. She co-edits Lullaby Machine, a magazine and digital library of sound. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction at New York University, where she also teaches undergraduate creative writing. 

Olivia has written about books, art, ecology, the internet, and radical mutual aid organizing, among other topics. Her work across writing, dance, and film has been supported by Tin House, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, Middlebury College’s Kellogg Fellowship, and the Vermont Arts Council.

In writing and in general, Olivia is interested in the ocean, webs, animism, hysteria, otherworlds, performance, and risk. She likes caves and stories about shapeshifting. 

selected works

INTERVIEWS

Hosting Worlds: A Conversation with Laurel Schwulst — Lullaby Machine — 2026

Sea Memory: A Conversation with Valeria Luiselli — Lullaby Machine — 2026

Disappearance is a Code: An Interview with Madeleine Dunnigan — Cleveland Review of Books — 2026

Unmastering Breath: A Conversation with Jamieson Webster — Lullaby Machine — 2026

Into the Cave: A Conversation with Ann Tashi Slater — Lullaby Machine — 2026

Hyperlinking: A Conversation with Joanna Walsh — Lullaby Machine — 2025

Get Free, Man: A Conversation with Zoe Dubno — The Rumpus — 2025

Space To Hear Myself: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones — Lullaby Machine — 2025

Jung Would Cry If He Saw My TikTok Feed: A Conversation with Aiden Arata — Lullaby Machine — 2025

Make the Mirrors Windows: A Conversation with Maria BC — Lullaby Machine — 2025

Asking Fear to Sleep: A Conversation with Ellayo — Lullaby Machine — 2025

Mothering as Faith: A Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs — Lullaby Machine — 2025

Our Bodies are Bodies and Our Bones are Bones: A Conversation with Amanda Hawkins —The Rumpus — 2025

I Have Been Mythologizing Myself: A Conversation with Saba Keramati — The Rumpus — 2024

Leslie Sainz: Shedding Histories — Rain Taxi (print only)— 2024

NONFICTION

On lullabies & the internet— Lullaby Machine — 2025

On Dead Weight — Rain Taxi — 2025

On The Boy and the Heron— Tricycle Magazine — 2024

On mutual aid — VTD — 2023

On Plex Arts fest — VTD — 2023

On floods — VTD — 2023

On frost — VTD — 2023

On feminist mini golf — VTD — 2023

On free food — VTD — 2023

On protest — VTD — 2023

On small-town corruption — VTD — 2023

ADDITIONAL REPORTING here

film

 dance

2024   HUGE DOOM!, choreography and performance by Maia Sauer and Olivia Q. Pintair, Off Center, Burlington, VT

2023  Gleamskin, choreographed by Hannah Laga Abram, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury, VT

2022   Falling Asleep and Other Feelings I Forget, choreographed by Maia Sauer, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury, VT

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