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 sociology and visual art into her literature and literacy classes. She enjoys writing about food and bicultural identity. She is a Fund for Teachers Fellow, and spent the summer of 2024 researching photography youth programming in Mexico City.

send her a note at olayabarr@gmail.com