Noy Holland (born December 3, 1960) is an American

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Biography

Holland received her Masters in Fine Arts from the

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in 1994. Holland is a Professor in the

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at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. She has also taught at

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and the

. She directs the Writers in the Schools Project in

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. She received a fellowship from the

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in 2003. She has also received fellowships from the

, the

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, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her writing has appeared in ''The American Voice'', ''

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'', ''Story Quarterly'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Conjunctions'', ''Black Warrior Review'', ''

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'', ''Noon'', and other publications. Holland's most recent book is ''I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories,'' published in January 2017 by

Counterpoint In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more musical lines (or voices) which are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. It has been most commonly identified in the European classical tradi ...

. She is also the author of ''Bird'' (

), ''The Spectacle of the Body'' (

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), ''What Begins with Bird'' (

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), and ''Swim for the Little One First'' (

). Her husband is the writer

Sam Michel Sam Michel is an American author. He is married to the writer Noy Holland. They live in western Massachusetts with their two children. Publications He wrote ''Under the Light'', a collection of stories, "Strange Cowboy, Lincoln Dahl Turns Five" ...

Bibliography

Short story collections

* ''The Spectacle of the Body'' (Knopf, 1994) * ''What Begins with Bird'' (Fiction Collective Two, 2005) * ''Swim for the Little One First'' (Fiction Collective Two, 2012) * ''I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories'' (Counterpoint, 2017). Collection of 44 stories (14 from previous collections).

Novels

* ''Bird'' (Counterpoint, 2015)

References

External links

Review of ''The Spectacle of the Body'' in ''The New York Times''

Noy Holland at ''Ploughshares''

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Michael Kimball Michael Kimball (born February 1, 1967) is a novelist from the United States. Life and career Michael Kimball was born February 1, 1967, in Lansing, Michigan. He studied at List of Michigan State University people, Michigan State University and ...

interviews Noy Holland i
''Avatar Review''

Fade Theory Review of ''What Begins With Bird''

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