I write creative nonfiction and poetry that explores memory, loss, place, identity, and our relationship to the natural world. In “Faith,” I write of what is “fragile and aching, bared into the air, the wind’s pitch,” and I return again and again to the small moments that bring us joy and remind us what it feels like to be fully alive.
Selected Prose and Poetry
Dalliance
The Balloon
Methuselah
Recent Publications
(forthcoming) “Gift.” Beautiful Things: A Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-Essays (2 March 2026).
“White Peonies.” San Pedro River Review 18.1 (Spring 2026): 48.
“Dalliance.” Thorn & Bloom: A Literary Magazine 4 (Dec. 2025): 12-13.
“Lilacs.” Hamilton Stone Review 52 (2025).
“Dream Forests” and “Faith.” Human Obscura 6 (2023): 42, 49.
Selected Earlier Publications
“Bones” and “Quarantine.” Feminist Studies 40.1 (2014): 216.
“The Balloon.” Cold Mountain Review 41.1 (2013): 29.
“Dancing Girl.” SNReview 14.2 (2012): 39-40.
“Corn.” Straightforward Poetry: A Magazine 1 (2012).
“Grace Note.” Sugar Mule 41 (2012): 218.
“Margins.” Split This Rock Poem of the Week Series 12 Nov. 2012.
“Methuselah.” Labletter: Annual Journal of Art & Literature 14 (2012): 34.
“On Constellations.” The Aurorean 17.1 (2012): 47.
“Prayer.” Diverse Voices Quarterly 4.13 (2012): 22.
“Hunger, Blossoms.” Apropos Literary Journal 2.1 (2011).
“Two Poems for J.” Gay and Lesbian Review 16.5 (2009): 25.
“Longing.” Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory. Eds. Miller, Sean, and Shveta Verma. New York: Scriblerus Press, 2008. 172.
Heather A. Holliger 