Degrees Held

A.B., 1980, College of William and Mary
M.A., 1982, Pennsylvania State University

Academic Summary

Cary Holladay teaches fiction writing. She has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including The Goodheart Prize (2006), first prize in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open (2006), The Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction (2002), the O. Henry Award (1999), and the Southern Humanities Review Annual Best Story Award (1997). Her stories have appeared recently in New Stories from the South, Epoch, and The Georgia Review. In 2006, she received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship ($20,000). She has a short story in the anthology, Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories ( Free Press, Simon & Schuster, edited by Owen King and John McNally. She was awarded the 2009 First Tennessee Professorship. The three-year appointment recognizes outstanding contributions to the University's educational, research, outreach, and service missions.

Courses Taught

4603 Fiction Workshop
4605 Forms of Fiction
7007 Teaching for Graduate Assistants
7471 Forms of Fiction Writing
7602 Fiction Workshop
7485 Literary Arts Programming

Major Publications

• A Fight in the Doctor's Office, (Miami UP, 2008), winner of Miami University of Ohio Novella Competition.
• The Quick-Change Artist, a short story collection, Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, Fall, 2006.
• Mercury, a novel, Shaye Areheart Books/Random House, 2002.
• The Palace of Wasted Footsteps, a short story collection, University of Missouri Press, 1998.
• The People Down South, a short story collection, University of Illinois Press, 1989.