Latinx mix, Writer of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Swimmer

Maddie Rue Olivas began writing as a teenager after moving to Los Angeles from Central California. It was her way of preserving a childhood spent swimming, climbing trees, befriending animals, reading comics, and drawing imaginary worlds. She later studied Theater Arts and Copyediting, earned a B.A. in Creative Writing, completed the UCLA Writers’ Program in Fiction Writing, and joined SCBWI. She was nominated for the Allegra Johnson Prize through the Writers’ Program at UCLA. She has won numerous awards through SCBWI, the SDSU Writing Conference, and one from the Futuristic, Fantasy, & Paranormal RWA. Most recently, she won the YARWA Rosemary Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction (Suspense and Thriller category).

Drawn to abandoned buildings and places reclaimed by nature, she mixes these elements into the fiction she creates.

Currently, she lives in Los Angeles, enjoying mom life, swimming, and dreaming.

♥Favorite Things♥

Movies: Aliens, Shaun of the Dead, Blood Red Sky, and Train to Busan

TV: Stranger Things, Only Murders in the Building, The Office

Anime: Sailor Moon and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Manga: Peach Girl, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Mint Chocolate

Manhwa: 13th Boy

Books: Flora Segunda (Wilce), Inside Out (Snyder), Kindred (Olivia Butler), The Tailsman (King/Straub)

Writers I admire: Gary Soto, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King

Represented by Mary C. Moore, Literary Agent at Aevitas Creative.