Vicky Oliver

Vicky Oliver graduated from Brown University with a double-major in English Honors and Political Science and received her MFA in Fiction from the New School in 2022. She is the author of six career books, including 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions (Sourcebooks) and Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers and Other Office Idiots (Sourcebooks), How to Live Like a Millionaire (Without Having to Be One) (Skyhorse) and 301 Smart Answers to Tough Business Etiquette Questions (Skyhorse), Power Sales Words (Sourcebooks) and one novel, titled Firebrands (Histria Books, October 2026), which is distributed by Simon & Schuster. She has published fifteen personal narrative essays (four in anthologies) and is Nonfiction Editor as well as an Art Editor of LIT magazine, the journal of the New School’s Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) program. Vicky Oliver co-hosts the Resilient Women series podcast for Relatable Media. Vicky Oliver’s novel, Firebrands, was both a Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist and a Writers’ League of Texas Award Finalist for Historical Fiction. Her novel was also a 5-Star Reader’s Favorite.