Olivia Gentile

Olivia Gentile

Olivia Gentile earned a B.A. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from Columbia. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 2006. She was an award-winning newspaper reporter in Vermont and Connecticut and now lives in New York City. You can follow her on Twitter. Or check out her website.

One Year to Live

In this moving new biography, Olivia Gentile profiles a frustrated housewife who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and threw herself into birding. In this exclusive excerpt, she first discovers her passion.

Olivia Gentile