Olympia Vernon


At A Glance

 

Favorite place on campus:

Wherever the janitors were;
hanging out with the ladies
in the cafeteria; or under the
shade (trees)

 

Favorite Louisiana food:

Creole stuffed bread from
Lafayette's Creole Lunch House

 

Favorite book:

The Bible

 

Favorite class:

My time with Judy Kahn,
Jim Bennett & Andrei Codrescu

 

Growing up, I wanted to be:

A fashion designer

 

 

Listen to the radio ad:

 

 

Olympia Vernon, who earned a
Master of Fine Arts in
creative writing, wrote Eden,
Logic, and A Killing in This
Town. She is currently working
on her fourth novel. Vernon’s
Eden, which she wrote while in
graduate school at LSU, was nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize, and won the
2004 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal
Award from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. She won the
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary
Excellence for A Killing in This Town.

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