Olivia De Zilva
Olivia De Zilva is a writer based on Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, Australia. She has been awarded and shortlisted for prizes including the Deakin University Non-Fiction Prize, the Kat Muscat Fellowship and the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Westerly, Liminal, SBS, Cordite Poetry Review, Mascara Literary Review and Australian Poetry Journal, among others. Olivia graduated with a Master of Philosophy from the University of Queensland; her thesis explored the representation of Asian-diasporic identity in contemporary Australian publishing.
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Coming in August 2025
Olivia De Zilva's Plastic Budgie is a brutally funny and inventive debut about family and self, full of itchy Y2K nostalgia, curses and glimpses of birds.
Format: B+ paperback
ISBN: 9781763554146
Published: 31 July 2025