CUTV News Radio Spotlights Author Olivia Diamond of Mountain of Dreams

Whitefish, MT – Olivia Diamond is an author, poet and essayist and owner of the Mountain of Dreams writer’s retreat. Olivia has published 12 novels, nine poetry collections, two non-fiction books, a short-story collection and an anthology of six years of blogging.

Olivia is most well-known for her eclectic, character-driven stories, delving into the lives of actual people who have lived, like The Pluperfect Phantom, an imaginative time warp story where the first serial killer kills in the present and transports his victims back to 1893 Chicago. In her Inca trilogy—Voice of Stone, Conquistadora, Daughter of the Conquest—she continues her interest in historical fiction, tracing the story of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire from immediately before Pizarro’s arrival through colonial Peru.

“Some people start with a plot idea; I start with a theme, something that I want to express,” says Olivia. “In Delayed Reaction, I was thinking what kind of legacy the Baby Boomers who faced the tragedy of Vietnam will have in the future?”

Olivia’s poetry books such as Women at the Well and Al-Andalus are thematic collections. Her poems tend to be narrative poems, like Longfellow and Tennyson, as well as dramatic monologues and persona poems, like a Shakespearean soliloquy.

“I write to be happy,” says Olivia.

For more information on Mountain of Dreams, visit www.mountainofdreams.com and www.oliviadiamond.wordpress.com.