Toby Olson is the author of Seaview, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for the most distinguished work of American fiction in 1983. His published works include ten novels and several collections of poetry. Olson co-directed the Aspen Writers' Workshop (which he co-founded), and taught at Long Island University, The New School for Social Research, and Temple University. He currently divides his time between Philadelphia and Cape Cod.

In Fall 2019, Occidental Square Press released Olson’s novel Walking—A Love Story.