Hi, I'm Olivia.
Family Historian. Poet. Tea Maven.
I'm just a poet looking for roots.
Photo Credit: Dionna Bright
Bio
Olivia Dorsey Peacock (she/her) is a family historian, poet, and tea maven whose 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 Arts & Science Council. She is currently serving as the 2025 GoodLit Fellow and previously served as a 2025 Goodyear Arts Artist-in-Residence. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Lucky Jefferson, poetry.onl, Shot Glass Journal, and Her Words.