Elliott Holt

Elliott Holt is an American fiction writer and former ad copywriter.[1] Holt won a 2011 Pushcart Prize for her story "Fem Care" and was the runner-up of the 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award for her story "The Norwegians." She was also part of Twitter's 2012 #twitterfiction festival.[2]

Elliott Holt
NationalityAmerican
Genrenovelist

In 2007 New York magazine named Holt one of their "Future Writing Stars in New York's Writing Programs".[3]

Biography

Holt attended Kenyon College as an undergraduate, where she "credits her experiences at Kenyon as a drama major with honing her fiction-writing skills."[4] She then went on to pursue her MFA at Brooklyn College, where she studied with professors such as Michael Cunningham, and received the Hiram Brown award.[5][6]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories
  • Evacuation Instructions (2008, Bellevue Literary Review)
  • The Norwegians (2010, Guernica)
  • Fem Care (2009, Kenyon Review; reprinted in The Pushcart Prize XXXV in 2011)

References
  1. "The Art of Reinvention". Marie Claire. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  2. "Twitter Fiction Done Right". Slate. 2012-11-29. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
  3. "The Stars of Tomorrow". New York Magazine. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  4. Sweeney, Rachel (March 13, 2013). [Elliott Holt ’97 to read from historical novel You Are One of Them "Elliott Holt '97 to read from historical novel You Are One of Them"] Check |archive-url= value (help). Kenyon Collegian. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013.
  5. "The Stars of Tomorrow". NYMag.com. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  6. Rapkin, Mitzi. "First Draft - Elliott Holt". www.aspenpublicradio.org. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
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