Cary Holladay, 2024 Coker Visiting Writer

Join the BFA Creative and Professional Writing program for a reading with award-winning author Cary Holladay on October 25, at 8:00 p.m. in Zimmerli Common Room, Howard Hall.

Cary Holladay has published eight volumes of fiction as well as a pictorial history of Glen Allen, Va. Over 100 of her stories and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Arkansas Review, Black Warrior Review, Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Epoch, Georgia Review, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, Oxford American, The Southern Review, Tin House, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

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.

Cary Holladay is a Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Memphis, where she was named a First Tennessee Professor and served as director of the creative writing program. She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Converse University. She and her husband, the poet and fiction writer John Bensko, live in Rapidan, Virginia

Contact Prof. Rick Mulkey, Director of the BFA in Creative and Professional Writing, for more information.