Noy Holland

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Noy Holland
Noy Holland, 2015
Noy Holland, 2015
Born (1960-12-03) December 3, 1960 (age 60)
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
SpouseSam Michel

Noy Holland (born December 3, 1960) is an American writer. She is married to the writer Sam Michel.

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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.[1] She is also the author of 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 writing has appeared in The American Voice, Ploughshares,[2] 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.

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