Kansas City-based Playwright, Author & Artist Olivia Hill

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series .. On this episode, we talk with Kansas City-based Playwright, Author & Artist Olivia Hill .. She is a survivor of child abuse, poverty, and sexual trauma .. Her mental health journey has been a long but successful one. She lived in interior Alaska for over 13 years with the majority of that time with no indoor plumbing. Her current project is a personal memoir called Travel North Black Girl. Four of her plays have been produced and performed in over five states, including New York and Washington, DC. Enjoy this Interview .. More on Olivia - https://www.oliviahillwrites.com/ Her book is Travel North Black Girl. A newly published memoir of my journey to the wilds of Alaska in the early 80’s. The coming of age of a young woman that had never traveled away from her Midwestern home of Kansas City but finds herself in an isolated indigenous village and married to a Jewish man from New Jersey. A testament to what we bring to a place and what we take away in the process of growth. Get it here: https://www.oliviahillwrites.com/travel-north-black-girl.html#/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices