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Cary's new book, HORSE PEOPLE, is forthcoming from LSU Press in Spring 2013. Michael Griffith, Series Editor, Yellow Shoe Fiction, made the selection.A native of Virginia, Cary Holladay earned an A.B. degree from the College of William and Mary and a Master of Arts in English, with a concentration in Fiction Writing, from the Pennsylvania State University. Cary Holladay is the author of five volumes of fiction: A Fight in the Doctor’s Office (Miami UP 2008); The Quick-Change Artist: Stories (Swallow Press / Ohio UP 2006); Mercury (Shaye Areheart Books / Crown 2002); The Palace of Wasted Footsteps (U Missouri Press 1998); and The People Down South (U of Illinois Press 1989). Her awards include an O. Henry Prize and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts. "Merry-Go-Sorry," her story about a triple homicide and the trials and convictions, was based on the case of the West Memphis 3. The story appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and won an O. Henry Prize. Cary Holladay's work has appeared numerous times in New Stories From the South: The Year's Best and in major literary journals, including The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, Tin House, Ecotone, Five Points, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, The Idaho Review, Glimmer Train, and The Oxford American. Cary teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis, where she is an Associate Professor of English, Director of the River City Writers Series, and a First Tennessee Professor. In 2011, she received the University of Memphis Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Creative Arts. Many of Cary's stories are set in Virginia's horse country. She has also begun writing a novel about the pirate Blackbeard. She and her husband, writer John Bensko, live in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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