Olympia vernon biography
LSU Profile of Olympia Vernon.
Olympia vernon biography
Olympia Vernon
Major Works
- A Killing in This Town (2006)
- Logic (2004)
- Eden (2002)
Olympia Vernon: A Biography
by Latorian Jones (SHS)
Olympia Vernon was born May 22, 1973 in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
She was raised in the small towns of Mt. Hermon, Louisiana, and Osyka, Mississippi, on the border between Mississippi and Louisiana. Her father, Fletcher Williams, Jr., graduated from the University of Mississippi. Olympia Vernon attended South Pike High School in Magnolia, Mississippi.
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She was the fourth of seven children. Originally, Vernon wanted a career in law enforcement and graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with a B.A. in Criminal Justice in 1999. However, her English professors, William Dowie and Carole McAllister, encouraged her to write.
In the fall of 1999, she went to Louisiana State University to pursue her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and received her M. F. A. in the spring of 2002. She twice was granted the Matt Clark Memorial