Noy Holland
| Noy Holland | |
|---|---|
 Noy Holland, 2015 | |
| Born | December 3, 1960 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Sam Michel |
Noy Holland (born December 3, 1960) is an American writer. She is married to the writer Sam Michel.
Literature-related
Holland's books include Bird (Counterpoint), Spectacle of the Body (Knopf), What Begins with Bird (Fiction Collective Two), and Swim for the Little One First (Fiction Collective Two). Her fifth book, I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories, is forthcoming in January 2017 from Counterpoint.
Her writing has appeared in The American Voice, Ploughshares,[1] Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Open City, Noon, and other publications.
She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2003. She has also received fellowships from the University of Florida, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Other
Holland is a Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has also taught at Phillips Academy and the University of Florida.
She directs the Writers in the Schools Project in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Education
- Holland received her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1994.
References
External links
- Review of The Spectacle of the Body in The New York Times.
- Noy Holland at Ploughshares
- Noy Holland at the National Endowment for the Arts
- Michael Kimball interviews Noy Holland in Avatar Review
- Fade Theory Review of What Begins With Bird
- Orbit by Noy Holland