Oliver Arnoldi is a writer and filmmaker with Japanese, Irish, and Italian roots.

His journalism has appeared in GQ, The Telegraph, The Tibet Post, and VICE News.

As a ghostwriter, editor, and book consultant, his work includes the memoirs of an artist and US presidential portraitist, an American mountaineer, and a #MeToo whistleblower.

His short fiction is published in The Stinging Fly, and he is working on his debut novel, which was longlisted for CRAFT’s First Chapters Contest and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellowship.

As a filmmaker, his work includes THE TOWERS, a documentary short film about a little person basketball team from New York, which won the Tribeca Film Institute / ESPN Future Filmmaker Prize. It was distributed by Great Big Story and has received nearly five million views online. He is in post-production on a follow-up documentary, LAST SUPPERS. He directed ONE BAR MORE, a narrative short film that won Raindance Film Festival’s Open Shorts Night. He has co-written and co-directed two other narrative short films, WAVES and VIRTUE. His screenwriting has been longlisted for the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and been a finalist for Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition.

For his work, he has received fellowships from the Hemera Foundation and the Pulitzer Prizes.

Contact: arnoldi.oliver@gmail.com