About

Olaya Barr is a translator, photographer, and writer living in New York. She was awarded the De Alba Fellowship for excellence in fiction writing as an MFA student at Columbia University, and currently teaches middle school English at a bilingual school in the Hudson Valley. As an educator, she weaves in sociology and visual art in her literature and literacy classes. She enjoys writing about food, biculturalism, and the multifarious identities within hispanic culture. She is a Fund for Teachers Fellow, spending the summer of 2024 researching photography youth programming at the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Alvarez Bravo in Oaxaca, Mexico.

send her a note at olayabarr@gmail.com