[2] Olzmann received his BA from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and his MFA from Warren Wilson College.

In 2012, Olzmann edited Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series along with Ross White.

[3] His debut collection, Mezzanines, was published by Alice James Books in 2013, which won the Kundiman Prize.

In November 2016, Olzmann published his second collection, Contradictions in the Design, also from Alice James Books.

[4] Olzmann is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire USA.