Born in 1959 in Cuba, Olga Lorenzo grew up in Miami, USA. She came to Australia in the 1980s where she worked as a journalist and sub-editor at the Melbourne Age. Her writing won the Felix Meyer Scholarship and the Percival Serle Bequest at the University of Melbourne where she gained her PhD in creative writing, and she was awarded an Arts Victoria grant and a Varuna Fellowship. Olga passed away in 2021.
Born in 1959 in Cuba, Olga Lorenzo grew up in Miami, USA. She came to Australia in the 1980s where she worked as a journalist and sub-editor at the Melbourne Age. Her writing won the Felix Meyer Scholarship and the Percival Serle Bequest at the University of Melbourne where she gained her PhD in creative writing, and she was awarded an Arts Victoria grant and a Varuna Fellowship. Olga passed away in 2021.
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