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Holly Haworth

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Graduate Teaching Assistant

Holly Haworth's essays, reporting, and poetry appear in The New York Times Magazine, Orion magazine, Oxford American, Terrain.org, The Utne Reader, Virginia Quarterly ReviewLapham's Quarterly and at the On Being radio program blog, among other places. Her work has received several Pushcart Prize nominations. It has been listed as notable in The Best American Travel Writing and included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. 

Holly has taught environmental education, creative writing, literature, geography, folklore, herbalism, fermentation, botany, and forestry classes since 2007, to people ages 3 to 90. 

Holly's hound dog's name is Banjo. 

 

Education:

MFA in Creative Writing, Hollins University, 2015

Southern Appalachian Naturalist Certificate, Great Smoky Mountains Institute, 2015

B.A. in English (rhetoric and writing), University of Tennessee, 2005

 

Of note:

Best American Science & Nature Writing • essay in forthcoming 2019 anthology

Pushcart Prize nomination from Terrain.org  • 2017

Best American Travel Writing • notable essay  • 2017

Guadalupe Mountains National Park Artist-in-Residence • Summer 2015

Pushcart Prize nomination from Still: The Journal  • 2015

Jackson Fellowship in Creative Writing • Hollins University 2013

Fellowship in Environmental Journalism  • Middlebury College 2011

Thomas J. Lyons Fellowship • Western Literature Association 2009

Russell Fellowship Utah State University • 2009

Articles Featuring Holly Haworth

Creative Writing Program graduate student, Holly Haworth has won the prestigious 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant for her upcoming book. The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is a charitable trust established at the bequest of the late Robert B.

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