NOY HOLLAND is the author of three story collections, Swim for the Little One First, What Begins with Bird, and The Spectacle of the Body. She teaches writing in the graduate program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Novels
Collections
The Spectacle of the Body (1994)
What Begins with Bird (2005)
I Was Trying to Describe What it Feels Like (2017)
What Begins with Bird (2005)
I Was Trying to Describe What it Feels Like (2017)
Noy Holland recommends
Always Crashing in the Same Car (2023)
Lance Olsen
"Lance Olsen concocts a world in which the concoction of self is spectacularly illegible and gorgeously weird. Biography, lit crit, metafiction, history: everything and nothing belongs. Time is confetti and here comes the wind. Love and fatherhood, fortune and fame. Augury, memory, dream. Nothing's sortable. This book blew my mind - it's all questions, super-charged and divine."
Pity the Beast (2021)
Robin McLean
"Robin McLean’s gonna get you. She will take you out into deep, and then deeper, water."
Strange Children (2021)
Sadie Hoagland
"I admire Strange Children for its mythic grandeur, its intoxicating cadences. This is a novel about a world unraveling, a desert place illuminated by the vulnerable young who belong to it—a place of child brides and murder, predation and exile, solace and exultation. Sadie Hoagland’s heart is spacious and her sentences are marvelously lush."
Books containing stories by Noy Holland
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
(Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, book 8)
edited by
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
