Olivia Kotze

Olivia Kotze writes for the children who feel everything and don’t yet have the words for it, and for the parents and grandparents who love them and still sometimes freeze, unsure what to do next.

She has lived through these moments. She knows how heavy a feeling can become when it has nowhere to go, and how hard it is, as the adult, to watch a child struggle and not know how to help. The GlowBook series came from that place. Not from having all the answers, but from wanting kids to feel seen.

“If this can help even one child understand their feelings and hold onto their joy or their glow, then that is what I set out to do.”

The books are her way of saying, to the child first: you are not alone in this, and your feelings are allowed to matter.