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Olivia Rutigliano is a writer based in New York City. She is the senior film writer at Lit Hub and the associate editor of its vertical CrimeReads. Her essays and reviews have also appeared in or are forthcoming from Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, Truly Adventurous, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Catapult and elsewhere. She has written a PBS television special starring the opera singer Renée Fleming, and her research on stolen and missing Oscars has been featured in Forbes and Mother Jones, and funded by the Mellon Foundation. A narrative historical essay she wrote called "The Joke" is currently being optioned in partnership with Elle Fanning, who recorded it as an episode of the "Paperless" podcast. She is receiving her PhD from Columbia University in 2022, and has an MPhil and MA from Columbia and an MA and BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

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