Occupation Writer and Teacher Nationality American | Name B. Hollars Role Author | |
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Books Thirteen Loops: Race - Vio, From the Mouths of Dogs: Wh, Dispatches from the Drowning, Opening the Doors: The Dese, Sightings: Stories | ||
B.J. Hollars (born 1984) is an American author of literary essays and nonfiction novels. He is the winner of the Blei/Derleth Nonfiction Award (2014) and the Society of Midland Authors Adult Nonfiction Award (2012). Hollars is the author of Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction (University of New Mexico Press, 2014), Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America (University of Alabama Press, 2011) Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa (The University of Alabama Press, 2013) and other works.
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Life and work
B.J. Hollars was born in Monticello, Indiana in 1984. He graduated as the senior class speaker at Knox College, where he delivered an address with former president Bill Clinton. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama in 2010. Hollars's essays have appeared in The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Brevity, The Collagist, North American Review, Quarterly West, and many other literary journals. Hollars also holds the unofficial Alabama state record for most consecutive runs down a water slide. He has edited three books, which include You Must Be This Tall To Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside The Story (2009), Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings (2011) and Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction (2013).
B.J. Hollars holds the University of Alabama Combined Graduate/Undergraduate Record for sequential trips down the Rec Center water slide.