about me

Hello! My name is Olivia Paschal. I’m a writer, historian, and journalist based in the Arkansas Ozarks and in Charlottesville, VA, where I'm a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia and assistant editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review. My academic work centers on labor, business, and neoliberal capitalism in Arkansas—home of Walmart, Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt, and Bill Clinton. My essays and reporting have appeared in the New York Review of Books, The American Prospect, The Nation, The Atlantic, and The Guardian, among other publications. You can reach me at olivia.paschal13 @ gmail.com.