Name Cary Holladay | Role Writer | |
Books Horse People: Stories, The Deer in the Mirror, The Palace of Wasted Footsteps, The Quick‑Change Artist: Sto, A Fight in the Doctor's | ||
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Cary Holladay is an American writer and professor, best known for her historical short fiction. In 1999, her story "Merry-Go-Sorry" about the West Memphis Three murder case was selected by Stephen King for an O. Henry Award. She is the author of a novel, Mercury; a novella, A Fight in the Doctor's Office; and five collections of short fiction. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis with her husband, the poet John Bensko.
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Originally from Virginia, Holladay graduated from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. and then went on to earn an M.A. in Fiction Writing from Pennsylvania State University. She currently teaches at the University of Memphis, where she has held honors including a First Tennessee Professor award.
Her stories have appeared in over sixty literary journals and anthologies, including New Stories from the South and The Oxford American.