no one remembered your name but i wrote it down

by Olivia Olivia

Olivia Olivia's debut chapbook "no one remembered your name but i wrote it down" is an otherworldly poetic memoir, grappling with identity, the afterlife, and exile. Following a complicated divorce with a man she meets abroad while searching for her brother in Berlin, the collection of vignettes composes lost memories of a dead sister, immigration, and the oceans women of color cross for men who do not love them.

21 pages, Unbound

Published December 4, 2015

About the author

Born to Salvadoran refugees in the 1980s, Olivia brings a voice torn somewhere between exile and longing to her prose. Her late 2015 debut, "No One Remembered Your Name But I Wrote It Down" is a speculative memoir set in the afterlife.

Her writing in general straddles poetry and prose, and in short bursts, her vignette chapters build in both length and emotional candor.

She is a force to be reckoned with and packs a pretty punch in a very short space. She is definitely worth seeing live if you get the chance.