Olivia Veroy was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and lived in Boston before moving to the Bay Area. She has lived in Daly City since 2019 and attends Archbishop Riordan High School as part of the Honors Computer Engineering Program. She loves to write poetry and short stories and helped organize her elementary school’s community service group, The Lunchmakers, which makes and distributes bagged lunches to the unhoused and people in need.

Olivia enjoys reading, archery, and playing the clarinet and the guitar, and received a silver medal in the National Scholastic Awards for her poem "To Be a Brown Girl."

Read poems from our 2023-2024 Youth Poet Laureate Olivia Veroy!

Congratulations Olivia on being selected our 2023-2024 Youth Poet Laureate!

Olivia Veroy’s Youth Poet Laureate Service Project

• Organized an online event called" Rise Above the Sea: Haiku!" to tutor 4th-8th graders in the art of haiku. To encourage interest, she also organized a free movie night at Peninsula Books in Westlake Shopping Center in Daly City. The movie, called "Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop," is about a shy boy who loves haiku, a girl who hides behind a mask, and a search for lost love.