Oliva Katrandjian is an Armenian-American writer and journalist. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the BBC, PBS, ABC News and Quartz, among other outlets. In 2016, Olivia moved to Luxembourg to write The Ghost Soldier, a historical novel about two Armenian-Americans in the Ghost Army, an artistic deception unit in the Second World War. She is the founder of the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in creative writing at Oxford University.