Olivia Muenz is the founder of PR firm Locution Publicity, specializing in literary and arts 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 was struck by the limited publicity of some of the most important work being published today. She decided to use her background in high-level arts PR to develop creative and affordable approaches to literary PR. Though open to books from all presses, she’s especially adept at small press publicity and is drawn to experimental, voice-driven, and hybrid work. Outside of literary PR, Locution Publicity works broadly across arts publicity and is currently accepting new clients.

Muenz is also a freelance writer and communications specialist, available for work in copywriting, content creation, literary consultation, literary editing and production, disability sensitivity reading, application consultations, and grant writing.