Border: Collected Poems (Pact Press). Playwriting Olivas wrote his first full-length play Waiting for Godínez in 2019. He explained that he was inspired both by Samuel Beckett’s iconic Waiting for Godot and the absurd, anti-immigrant policies of the federal government. It was also selected for Playwrights' Arena's Summer Reading Series (2020), The Road Theatre's Twelfth Annual Summer Playwrights Festival (2021), the Garry Marshall Theatre's New Works Festival (2022), and was a semi-finalist in the 2021 Blue Ink Play Award sponsored by American Blues Theater. In 2020 Olivas was selected for Circle X Theatre Co.'s inaugural Evolving Playwrights Group to adapt his novel The Book of Want (University of Arizona Press, 2011). The play had a Zoom reading on June 21, 2021, which was directed by Daphnie Sicre. Olivas's first live, staged play, Waiting, had its world premiere with Playwrights' Arena on July 24, 2021. Bibliography BooksHow to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (University of Nevada Press, 2022)The King of Lighting Fixtures: Stories (University of Arizona Press, 2017)Crossing the Border: Collected Poems (Pact Press, 2017)Things We Do Not Talk About: Exploring Latino/a Literature through Essays and Interviews (San Diego State University Press, 2014)The Book of Want: A Novel (University of Arizona Press, 2011)Anywhere But L.A.: Stories (Bilingual Press, 2009)Latinos in Lotusland (Bilingual Press, 2008) Devil Talk: Stories (Bilingual Press, 2004) Assumption and Other Stories (Bilingual Press, 2003) The Courtship of María Rivera Peña (Silver Lake Publishing, 2000) Children's picture book Benjamin and the Word / Benjamin y la palabra (Arte Público Press, 2005) Anthologies (contributing author) Both Sides: Stories from the Border (Polis Books, 2020) Speak & Speak Again (Pact Press, 2017) LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers (Red Hen Press, 2016) Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) New California Writing 2012 (Heyday Books, 2012) You Don't Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens (Arte Público Press, 2011) Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (W. W. Norton, 2010) Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (W. W. Norton, 2010) Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting (City Works Press, 2010) A Poet’s Haggadah: Passover Through the Eyes of Poets (CreateSpace, 2008) Social Issues Firsthand: Hate Crimes (Thomson/Greenhaven, 2007) You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories (Ooligan Press, 2007) Love to Mamá: