Olympia Vernon (born May 22, 1973) is an American author who has published three novels: Eden (2002), Logic (2004), and A Killing In This Town (2006).
Eden won the 2004 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Vernon attended South Pike High School in Magnolia, Mississippi.
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice from Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU) in 1999.
[1] She also earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in 2002.