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Olympia Vernon is the author of the award-winning novels Eden and Logic. She grew up in a small town on the border of Mississippi and Louisiana, the fourth of seven children. She has a degree in Criminal Justice, and an M.F.A. from Louisiana State University. Vernon is the winner of a 2004 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the Academy of the Arts and Letters, a 2005 Louisiana Governor's Arts Award in the Professional Artist category, has twice been granted the Matt Clark Memorial Scholarship, and was nominated for the Robert O. Butler Award in Fiction in 2000. She lives in New Orleans.
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