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Liza Olson

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Born

in Des Plaines, The United States

Website

https://lizaolsonbooks.com/

Genre

Contemporary, Fiction

Member Since

September 2020

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Liza Olson is the author of the novels Here’s Waldo, The Brother We Share, Afterglow, and Boundless and Bare. A Best of the Net nominee, Best Small Fictions nominee, finalist for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award, and 2021 Wigleaf longlister in and from Chicagoland, she's been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Cleaver, Pithead Chapel, and other fine places. ...more

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Average rating: 5.0 · 16 ratings · 9 reviews · 5 distinct works

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Liza Olson rated a book it was amazing Expansive Love: A Practical Guide to Relationship Anarchy by Tuck Malloy	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Liza Olson rated a book it was amazing Nevada by Imogen Binnie (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Liza Olson rated a book it was amazing Death, Desire, and Other Destinations by Tara Isabel Zambrano	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It’s wild to remember, while reading this, that this is Zambrano’s debut short story collection. In many ways, she’s already cemented herself as one of the all-time greats of flash fiction, so to read her work collected like this is a revelatory expe ...more
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Liza Olson rated a book it was amazing No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Liza Olson rated a book it was amazing Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Liza Olson rated a book it was amazing The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go by Lola Phoenix	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Liza Olson rated a book it was amazing The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Liza Olson rated a book it was amazing Girl in the World by Caroline Cash	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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