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Olivia Tolich
Olivia Tolich is an emerging author based in Melbourne (Naarm). She has made books her entire personality from a young age and has terrible eyesight to show for it. She works as an educational publisher and has a dog named Poppy who really hates that her human’s main interest involves sitting around staring at a computer. Her first novel, Side Character Energy, will be released in Australia in 2026 via Text Publishing.