Vicky Oliver

Vicky Oliver graduated from Brown University with a double major in English Honors and Political Science and received her Master in Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Writing [Fiction] from the New School in 2022.

She has published six nonfiction books covering career topics, three at Sourcebooks and three at Skyhorse, including 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions (Sourcebooks), which sold almost 100,000 copies. Vicky Oliver has also published 15 personal narrative essays (four in anthologies) and serves as the Nonfiction Editor as well as an Art Editor at LIT magazine, the journal of the New School’s MFA program. She co-hosts the Resilient Women podcast for Relatable Media.

Firebrands (Histria Books, 2026), a Gilded-Age style tale of morals versus money, was a 2025 Writers’ League of Texas Finalist for Historical Fiction and a 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist for Best Historical Fiction. Ancestors on both sides of Vicky Oliver’s family lived in Manhattan during the time the novel takes place.