Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic, and a former deputy books editor of The Observer. Their nonfiction includes To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), The Lonely City (2016), Funny Weather (2020), Everybody (2021) and The Garden Against Time (2024). Their novels are Crudo (2018), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and The Silver Book (2025). They received the Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction in 2018 and are a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.