Olivia Kate Cerrone is the author of The Hunger Saint, a historical novella about the child miners of Sicily, which won a 2018 American Fiction Award. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated work has received the Jack Dyer Prize from the Crab Orchard Review, the Mason’s Road Literary Award, and first place in Italian Americana’s annual literary contest. Her writing has appeared in Psychology Today, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post and elsewhere. She is currently at work on DISPLACED, a contemporary novel set in Boston about the fateful intersection of two families, one seeking asylum in Boston, whose lives are forever transformed by immigration politics and devastating betrayal.
