University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fiction Reading by Noy Holland

Noy Holland will read from her new collection of short stories, "What Begins With Bird." A book signing and reception will follow the reading.

Noy Holland is the author of The Spectacle of the Body (1994), which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her second collection of stories, What Begins with Bird, was published this fall by Fiction Collective Two. She is an Associate Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she directs the Writers in the Schools Project. She was a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in 2002, and received an NEA in 2003.