Occupation Writer Spouse Sam Michel Role Writer | Name Noy Holland Nationality American Education University of Florida | |
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Born December 3, 1960 (age 63) ( 1960-12-03 ) Books What begins with bird, Swim for the Little One First, The Spectacle of the Bo, Bird: A Novel | ||
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Noy Holland (born December 3, 1960) is an American writer. She is married to the writer Sam Michel.
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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, 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.
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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.