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Amanda Oliver is a writer and former librarian. Her writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times,Vox,Electric Literature, Medium, andThe Rumpus. She has been interviewed about libraries and being a librarian for NPR, CBC Radio, Associated Press, and American Libraries Magazine. Oliver is a graduate of the MLS program at SUNY Buffalo and the MFA program at UC Riverside. A Buffalo, New York, native, she now lives and writes in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree.
Overdue paints a vivid and meticulously researched picture of American public libraries: not as utopias exempt from the inequality and violence in our country, but as real places that too often bear the brunt of them. Both a deeply personal cry of frustration and a boldly argued rallying cry, this book will change the way you think about libraries. It will, in all the best ways, make you want to fight: not just for more equitable libraries, but for a more equitable world. --Claire Comstock-Gay, author of Madame Clairvoyant's Guide to the Stars Amanda Oliver's harrowing and moving tale is, among other things, an indictment of our country's grotesquely inadequate social services. She demolishes whatever stereotypes we might carry of librarians and libraries. --Tom Lutz, award-winning author of The Kindness of Strangers
