Noy Holland’s collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First, What Begins with Bird, and The Spectacle of the Body. She has published work in Conjunctions, The Quarterly, The Believer, NOON, New York Tyrant, Fairy Tale Review, Western Humanities Review, and Post Road, among others. She has taught for many years in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts.