ABOUT

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Locution Publicity is a public relations firm dedicated to delivering effective and affordable arts campaigns.

Struck by the limited publicity of some of the most important work being published in the literary world today, Olivia Muenz founded Locution Publicity to develop creative and affordable approaches to literary publicity.

She began her career in publicity at PR firm Nasty Little Man, representing musicians like Paul McCartney, U2, Radiohead, David Bowie, LCD Soundsystem, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Arcade Fire, Gorillaz, Beck, and PJ Harvey, leading the campaigns of some of the highest grossing and largest in scale tours in the world. She’s placed work in national, regional, and local outlets across consumer media, broadcast, and podcast, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Associated Press, Billboard, Esquire, Variety, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, AV Club, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, CNN, The Washington Post, Vogue, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, GQ, Gothamist, People, US Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and NPR.

When she left her role at Nasty Little Man to pursue an MFA in creative writing and began moving deeper into the literary industry as an author, she became motivated to create an avenue for presses and writers to gain a wider audience using her background in high-level arts publicity. Though specializing in small press publicity, Locution Publicity is open to books from all presses and is especially interested in working with experimental, voice-driven, and hybrid work. While Locution Publicity focuses on literary publicity, including literary tours, it has expanded to cover arts publicity broadly and is open to campaigns across disciplines.

Olivia Muenz is also a writer and poet. She’s the author of poetry collection I Feel Fine (Switchback Books, 2023), which won the 2022 Gatewood Prize, and chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press, 2022). She received a BA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University where she won the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award in prose. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Conduit, Black Warrior Review, Pleaides, Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere, including being listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2023. Her writing has been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Zoeglossia.