Holland received her Masters in Fine Arts from the
University of Florida in 1994. 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. 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. 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. 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. She is also the author of
Bird (
Counterpoint),
The Spectacle of the Body (
Knopf),
What Begins with Bird (
Fiction Collective Two), and
Swim for the Little One First (
Fiction Collective Two). Her husband is the writer
Sam Michel. == Bibliography ==