Book Publications:

 

• I Said That Love Heals from Inside: Love Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa, Edited by Oliver Egger: Wesleyan University Press, FORTHCOMING September 2024

• The Route 9 Anthology: A Collection of Writing from Wesleyan Students, Faculty, Staff & Middlesex County Residents Edited and Compiled by Oliver Egger: Wesleyan University Press, September 2022

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Poetry Publications:

 

• Fortieth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded at South Boston For the Year Ending September 30, 1887: The Florida Review Vol. 47.2: January 2024

• King Ludwig II’s Chamber of Mirrors, 2023 Connecticut Literary Anthology: Fiction, Poetry and Nonfiction from the Nutmeg State, Woodhall Press, October 2023

• Three Poems: Blue Stacks, The Flies, The Calls of the Nowhere Men by Alexander Blohkin, Translated by Anton Talsky, and Edited by Oliver Egger: The Birch Magazine at Columbia University, Summer 2023

• Three Poems: The Righteous Garden, The Attic Prayer, Shell-Shocked Solider Comes Home by Alexander Blohkin, Translated by Anton Talsky, and Edited by Oliver Egger: Troika Magazine at University of California at Berkeley, Summer 2023

• Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts School of the Feeble-Minded at Waltham, For the Year Ending September 30, 1904: The Lavender: Wesleyan's Poetry, Prose, &  Art Magazine, Summer, 2023

• Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts School of Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth: October, 1871: The Wesleyan Argus: April, 2o23

• The Phoenix: California Quarterly 48, No. 1, Spring 2022

• ​Wesleyan Parents: The Wesleyan Argus: October 2021

• Empty City: 25th Anniversary – 2021 Poetry Ink Anthology: Moonstone Press: August 2021

• My Grandmother’s House: Fifth Annual Issue: Oyster River Pages: August 2021

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti Anthology: Moonstone Press: March 2021

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Journalism Publications: 

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• The surprising history of an iconic American candy: The Boston Globe: March 29, 2024

• The shameful afterlife of the Fernald School in Waltham: The Boston Globe: January 10, 2024

• All my articles at The Provincetown Independent covering social issues, lifestyle, and arts and culture on Outer Cape Cod. Some personal favorites include: 

  • The UFO in Truro: An artist’s vision shapes a movement (12/27/23)

  • Jenny Humphreys Gets Away With It: Inside the painter’s winter of whimsy (12/6/23)

  •  Scrimshaw Was the Whalemen’s Art: A pastime for the homeward voyage (10/4/23)

  • A Language of Dualities: Joe Diggs paints the many meanings of history (8/30/23)

  • ‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’: Experiencing ‘re-wilding’ in a Castle Hill workshop (8/23/23) 

  • Sleeping in the Elements in Provincetown: The nearest homeless shelter is St. Joseph House in Hyannis, more than an hour away (7/26/23) 

  • In a Kayak, Sitting Eye Level With Nature: Close encounters with fiddler crabs, marsh grasses, ocean waves, and lily pads (7/5/23)

• Op-Ed: Year of Loss: Indy Week: March 2021

• Open Doors: A Reflection on SC&A and National Poetry Month 2021: Wesleyan Special Collections and Archives Blog, April 2021

 

Editing Projects:

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• Current Assistant Editor at Wesleyan University Press

• Founder and former Director of Wesleyan University’s Route 9 Literary Collective

• Founder and former Editor-in-chief of The Lavender: Wesleyan’s Poetry, Prose & Art Magazine

• Founder and former Editor of weekly column Poems of Our Climate which runs in The Wesleyan Argus

• Former Poetry Reader at The Yale Review

• Co-curator and Editor of Wesleyan Special Collections and Archives Exhibit and zine The Poetry Room

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Press:

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• In Waltham, families of former patients, workers at Fernald demand role in deciding property’s future by John Hilliard, The Boston Globe, February, 2024. 

• Fernald School: Waltham is letting a historic property fall apart: The city bought the 190-acre property in part using money from the state, and promised to preserve the site. But it has let the buildings fall into disrepair. By The Editorial Board at The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe, January, 2024

• ‘A last indignity’ at Fernald: records strewn about crumbling site, Letters to The Editor, The Boston Globe January, 2024 

• Wesleyan in the News: January 2024, The Wesleyan Connection, January, 2024

• WesCeleb: Oliver Egger ’23 Talks Route 9 Literary Collective, Building Community, and Wesleyan Personalities by Kat Struhar, Wesleyan Argus,  April, 2023 

• Wesleyan in the News: January 2023,  The Wesleyan Connection, January 2023

• Five College Students Selected to Tour State on Connecticut Poetry Circuit, Connecticut by the Numbers, January 2023

• Celebrating Community Voices: The Route 9 Anthology by Rachel Wachman, The Wesleyan Connection, October, 2022

• The Route 9 Literary Collective Unites Wesleyan Students and Middletown Residents in New Anthology by Ben Togut, Wesleyan Argus, September 2022

• Route 9 Brings a New Outlet for Print Literature to Wesleyan by Aiden Malanaphy, Wesleyan Argus, November 2021

• North Carolina brothers create a startling mural mourning the grim milestone of 100,000 US lives lost to the coronavirus with 310 copies of a New York Times cover by Lauren Frias, Business Insider, June, 2020

• Meet the Twin Brothers behind the Durham Mural Commemorating the Lives Lost to COVID-19

• by Bella Smith, Indy Week, June 2020

• NC twins use copies of New York Times page and spray paint to make a statement at Duke By Kate Murphy, The News & Observer, May, 2020

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Awards and Fellowships:

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• Connecticut Poetry Circuit Connecticut Student Poet, 2022-2023

• Provincetown Independent Summer Journalism Fellowship, Summer 2023

• Wesleyan Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism Kim-Frank Fellow in Creative Writing, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025

• Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities Student Fellowship, Fall 2022

• Wesleyan University English Department Olin Fellowship, Summer 2022