writer / phd / dumpster raccoon

Anthony Oliveira is an international bestselling and three-time National Magazine / two-time GLAAD award-winning author, film programmer, pop culture critic, and PhD living in Toronto.

His work is in a myriad of genres, often incorporating queer themes, and spans comics, prose, journalism, and academic research.

His first novel, Dayspring, was published by Strange Light in 2024, winning the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ2S+ for Emerging Writers. His work for Marvel Comics (on the Young Avengers, X-Men, Captain Marvel, and the GLAAD-award-nominated Avengers Academy) can be found here. His YA graphic novel project Apocrypha is announced from Harper Alley.

ONGOING PROJECT: THE DEVIL’S PARTY PODCAST

Follow along in readings of Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, the Gospel of Mark, the Gospel of John, and the Book of Revelations - each reading with a companion book-club style analysis meant to help first-timers and experts alike in catching the weird magic of these important and influential texts!

ONGOING PROJECT: DUMPSTER RACCOON CINEMA

Join our monthly screening series at the Revue Cinema, as we forage through pop culture for its lost, forgotten, and neglected trash!

ONGOING PROJECT: OSCAROUND

Keep track of your Oscar season - what you’ve watched, what you loved, and what will win - and share with your friends with OSCAROUND! Developed with Alex Koppel. https://oscaround.com/