Olyn Ozbick is an internationally award-winning magazine editor, a journalist and fiction writer, a finalist in the CBC Short Story Awards, and picture book author. Her fiction has been published in anthologies and literary magazines in Canada, the US and the UK. Her essays, reports, reviews and creative non-fiction have been widely published. She is passionate about language and literature and fascinated by technology and its possibilities. She teaches writing at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre and has taught Journalism in the Faculty of Journalism at Mount Royal University. She received the support of Banff Centre’s Writers Residencies in 2013 and 2014, and in 2019 was invited to represent the Literary Arts at Banff Centre’s Digital Transformation Summit. She considers herself to be not so much facing a rapidly digitizing world, as amazed and enthralled by it, and so investigating how storytelling, language and literature can find a place in the digitized world is foremost on her creative mind. She wonders: In what ways can new technologies help writers and their work with words, language, concepts and craft? In addition to her interest in AI, VR, GPS and more, Olyn’s short story Help Fund Pam’s Vital Medical Procedure observes and plays with the some of the new languages bubbling up as a result of digitization. Olyn lives in Calgary with her frisbee-lovin’ border collie.
