Brian Oliu

Photo of Flannery O'Connor Award judge Brian OliuBrian Oliu currently teaches, writes, and fights out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is the author of two chapbooks and four full-length collections of nonfiction, including the lyric-memoir i/o, and So You Know It’s Me, a collection of Craigslist missed connections. Essays on such wide-ranging topics as eight-bit video games, long-distance running, and professional wrestling appear in Catapult, the Rumpus, Inside Higher Ed, McSweeney’s, DIAGRAM, TriQuarterly, Runner’s World, Waxwing, Gay Magazine, and elsewhere.