A Fond Farewell to Noy Holland (ft. Joy Williams)

Presented by the MFA for Poets and Writers and Art Sustainability Activism:
Noy Holland & Joy Williams

A Fond Farewell to Noy
Thursday, December 8, 6pm
Great Hall, Old Chapel

After 25 years of teaching in the UMass MFA for Poets and Writers, Noy Holland is retiring. In celebration of her career spent fostering communities for writers and for activists in the face of global climate change, the MFA Program and the ASA collaboration at UMass present a reading with Noy and special guest, Joy Williams. A reception will follow.

Noy Holland is the 2018 recipient of the Katherine Anne Porter prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She is the author of the novel Bird, and four collections of short fiction, The Spectacle of the Body, What Begins with Bird, Swim for the Little One First, and I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories.

Joy Williams has published five novels and five books of short stories, including Harrow and The Visiting Privilege.