About
Hi, I'm Olivia Dorsey Peacock.
Genealogist. Poet. Tea Maven.
I seek Black historical memory and desire to engage and protect it.
Bio
Olivia Dorsey Peacock (she/her) is a genealogist, poet, and tea maven based in North Carolina. Her work focuses on authentic, creative engagements with Black history, memory, and archives.
She holds degrees in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a family historian, she has been researching her family's ancestry for over a decade. She has developed several projects at the intersection of Black History, genealogy, and technology, including Franklin Memories, a communal repository of her own family history, and Digital Black History, a searchable directory of digital Black History projects.
She has received fellowships and support from The Watering Hole, the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the Goodyear Arts Emerging Poets cohort. She was a finalist for the 2023 GoodLit Poetry Fellowship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Lucky Jefferson, Shot Glass Journal, A Garden of Black Joy, and Sixfold.
Contact Me
Want to chat or work with me? Shoot me a message at hey [at] oliviapeacock [dot] com.