Noy Holland was an accomplished educator and short story and novella writer before she published her debut novel, Birds, in 2015. She is the author of the collections The Spectacle of the Body (1994), What Begins with Bird (2005), and Swim for the Little One First (2012). In 2008 she was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council award and has also been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow. She teaches in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is on the board of directors of Fiction Collective Two. Her latest work is the story collection I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like.
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