B.J. Hollars (born 1984) is an American author of literary essays and nonfiction novels. He is the author of several books, most recently Go West Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail, Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country, The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders,Flock Together: A Love Affair With Extinct Birds,From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human, as well as a collection of essays, This Is Only A Test. Additionally, he has also written Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America, Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa, Dispatches from the Drownings, and Sightings.
B.J. Hollars
Born
1984 Monticello, Indiana
Occupation
Writer and teacher
Nationality
American
Hollars is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, the Council of Wisconsin Writers' Blei-Derleth Award, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and received a 2022 silver medal from the Midwest Book Awards .[1]
B.J. Hollars was born in Monticello, Indiana in 1984. He graduated as the senior class speaker at Knox College, where he delivered an address with former president Bill Clinton. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama in 2010. Hollars's essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Parents Magazine,The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Brevity, The Millions, Wisconsin Life, Terrain, Huffington Post, North American Review, Quarterly West, and many other literary journals. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire[2] and a columnist for the Leader-Telegram.
Worksedit
Booksedit
Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic (ed.)
Go West Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail
Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country
The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human
This Is Only A Test
Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction
Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
Sightings: Stories
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America
Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction (ed.)
Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings
You Must Be This Tall To Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story (ed.)
Chapbooksedit
Harbingers (Bull City Press, 2018)
In Defense of Monsters (Bull City Press, 2017)
Referencesedit
^"Growing Up Awkwardly: An Interview with B.J. Hollars". Fiction Writers Review. Fiction Writers Review. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
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