Moin Moin // G’day
I’m O(Liv)ia, an Australian writer and English language lecturer. Hailing originally from Sydney, I currently reside in Germany’s beautiful Schleswig-Holstein, with my very north German husband, our two children and the family dog. In my job as a lecturer at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, I developed and continue to run the university’s first Creative Writing class and workshop for English language students, and am a founding editor of the university’s literary journal, Literasea. I am also a PhD candidate researching the role of Creative Writing in TEFL (which I may finish before my 90th birthday).
While I am currently devoting my writing time to a handful of fiction projects, including a novel and short story collection, I do otherwise write about life in Germany, motherhood, and raising kids in a different culture and language. My books are availabe to buy at Thalia, Hugendubel, Geniallokal.de and Amazon (Germany, US, UK and Australia).
News
- My unpublished novel has just been longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award, 2026
- That same novel won the The Letter Review Prize for Books, 2025
- Issue 3 of Literasea went to press in June, 2025 and my essay in it, Bushluft, can be read online here.