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Olivia Chadha PhD MA, BA
Genre Fiction Concentration Faculty
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ochadha@western.edu
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Graduate Program in Creative WritingBiography
Olivia Chadha is a multi-published author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books, and literary novels. Rise of the Red Hand, her YA debut, was awarded the Colorado Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Book two of The Mechanists series, Fall of the Iron Gods, was published in April 2024. She is a contributor to the YA folk horror anthology The Gathering Dark (Page Street), the desi anthology Magic Has No Borders (HarperTeen), and the Star Wars anthology Return of the Jedi: From A Certain Point of View (Random House Worlds). She has a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing with a focus on borders and boundaries, folklore, and the environment. She lives in Colorado with her family.
PhD, Binghamton University SUNY, Creative Writing & Literature, 2009
MA in English and Creative Writing, University of Colorado Boulder, 2005
BA in Literature & Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 1998