Holly’s short story “Zugunruhe” won third place in the 2023 Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest judged by Debra Monroe. Click here to read her story in the Summer 2024 issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas.
Holly’s contest-winning essay about her love of birds was featured in the MOXIE Theatre lobby starting Feb. 9, 2023 during the course of the San Diego Bird Festival. The contest was held in conjunction with MOXIE Theatre’s production of Birds of North America by Anna Ouyang Moench. An abbreviated version of Holly’s essay was also published in the San Diego Union Tribune.
Holly’s short story “Beyond His Reach” was the winner of the 2018 James Hurst Prize for Fiction sponsored by NC State University.