{"id":48,"date":"2021-02-03T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/OlynOzbick\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2022-01-28T19:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T02:01:03","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/OlynOzbick\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/OlynOzbick\/about\/olynmaypost72dpi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/OlynOzbick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OlynMayPost72dpi.jpg?fit=432%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"432,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OlynMayPost72dpi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/OlynOzbick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OlynMayPost72dpi.jpg?fit=432%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/OlynOzbick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OlynMayPost72dpi.jpg?resize=324%2C486&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Olyn Ozbick photo\" class=\"wp-image-49\" width=\"324\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/OlynOzbick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OlynMayPost72dpi.jpg?w=432&amp;ssl=1 432w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/OlynOzbick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OlynMayPost72dpi.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Olyn Ozbick<\/strong>&nbsp;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.&nbsp;Her essays, reports, reviews and creative non-fiction have been widely published.&nbsp;She is passionate about language and literature and fascinated by technology and its possibilities. She teaches writing at the Alexandra Writers\u2019 Centre and has taught Journalism in the Faculty of Journalism at Mount Royal University.&nbsp;She received the support of Banff Centre\u2019s Writers Residencies in 2013 and 2014, and in 2019 was invited to represent the Literary Arts at Banff Centre\u2019s Digital Transformation Summit. She considers herself to be not so much&nbsp;facing&nbsp;a rapidly digitizing world, as amazed and enthralled by it, and so&nbsp;investigating how storytelling, language and literature can find a place in the digitized world is foremost on her creative mind. She&nbsp;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,&nbsp;Olyn\u2019s short story&nbsp;<em>Help Fund Pam\u2019s Vital Medical Procedure<\/em>&nbsp;observes and plays with the some of the new languages bubbling up as a result of digitization. Olyn&nbsp;lives in Calgary with her frisbee-lovin\u2019 border collie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ce4wp-subscribe\"><div class=\"onSubmission\" style=\"display:none\"><input class=\"onSubmissionSetting\" name=\"onSubmissionSetting\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"message\"\/><div><h2 class=\"title\">Subscribe<\/h2><p class=\"subTitle\">Thank you for subscribing!<\/p><\/div><\/div><form class=\"cm-contact-form\" name=\"contact-form\"><input class=\"list_id\" name=\"list_id\" type=\"hidden\"\/><h2 class=\"title\">Subscribe<\/h2> <p class=\"subTitle\">Sign up for my newsletter and stay up to date.<\/p><div class=\"inputBlock\"><label>First name<\/label><input class=\"firstName\" name=\"first_name\" type=\"text\"\/><\/div><div class=\"inputBlock\"><label>Last name<\/label><input class=\"lastName\" name=\"last_name\" type=\"text\"\/><\/div><div class=\"inputBlock\"><label>Email<\/label><span class=\"wp-caption-text required-text\" style=\"color:#ee0000\">*<\/span><input class=\"email\" name=\"email\" type=\"email\" oninvalid=\"setCustomValidity('Please enter a valid email address')\" oninput=\"setCustomValidity('')\" required\/><\/div><div class=\"disclaimer\"><input class=\"consent_check\" name=\"consent_check_6083b86b-01ee-4d44-86f5-d9739894248f\" id=\"consent_check_6083b86b-01ee-4d44-86f5-d9739894248f\" type=\"checkbox\"\/><label for=\"consent_check_6083b86b-01ee-4d44-86f5-d9739894248f\" class=\"disclaimer-label\">Can we send you an email from time to time?<\/label><\/div><button class=\"wp-block-button__link submit-button\" type=\"submit\">Subscribe<\/button><\/form><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olyn Ozbick&nbsp;is an internationally award-winning magazine editor, a journalist and fiction writer, a finalist in the CBC Short Story Awards, and picture book author. 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