Beverly Olevin

KIRKUS Discoveries BEST FICTION BOOK Award "The Good Side of Bad" has been adapted into a feature film titled GOOD SIDE OF BAD and will have its world premiere festival preview in June 2023 ... stay tuned for details. Read more at my website www.beverlyolevin.com. You can read the STARRED review of this novel from KIRKUS at http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/fiction/beverly-olevin/good-side-bad/.

Beverly's first non-fiction "true-life novella" A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY is told with warmth, humor and suspense. Now available.

"Little Lies and Serious Indiscretions", is a collection of short stories: Into every life a little deception must fall. Her first novel was "The Breath of Juno." Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines across the country. Her short story, The Gypsy Moon, was featured in Ms. Magazine. Beverly's play Soundings was produced at the Odyssey Theatre and was a Los Angeles Times critics pick. The World Premiere of her play The Green Room was presented at Theatre Forty 40 in Beverly Hills. In 2008, she was Artist-in-Residence for UCLA Extension's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She teaches courses in Theatre, Literature and Acting at UCLA, Cal State Channel Islands, and University of Washington. Beverly directs plays in Los Angeles including the award-winning The Manor at Greystone Mansion, which has been running for a record 18 years. She wrote and directed the short dramatic film Fallout.

Her non-fiction publications have sold over a million copies worldwide. Her background also includes work as an Associate Director with the California State Universities and Academic Director in Oxford, England. She has an undergraduate degree from UCLA and an MFA from Trinity University.