Author Bio
• Birth—December 18, 1979
• Where—Russellville, Kentucky, USA
• Education—B.A., University of Kentucky; M.F.A.,
Ohio State University
• Awards—Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
• Currently—lives in Greensboro, North Carolina
Holly Goddard Jones was born and raised in Russellville, Kentucky. At the age of nineteen, after a year of college at nearby Western Kentucky University, she married her boyfriend, Brandon, and the two moved to Lexington, Kentucky, to pursue degrees at the University of Kentucky. In Lexington, Holly took her first fiction workshops and worked part-time as a marketing assistant at University Press of Kentucky.
Holly soon went on to receive an MFA in creative writing at The Ohio State Univerity, and to teach at Denison University, Murray State University, and most recently the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she is Assistant Professor of English. Over the years, she has also taught workshops for the Reynolds Young Writers' Workshop, the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, the Sewanee School of Letters, and Centre College.
Holly's first book, Girl Trouble, a collection of stories, was published in 2009. Stories from the collection were published in various journals and anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South 2007 and 2008, Southern Review, Epoch, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, and Hudson Review. The book was also featured in O: The Oprah Magazine, People, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere.
The Next Time You See Me, Holly's debut novel, was published in 2013 by Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Her newest short fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Tin House, Epoch, and Southern Review.
She was a 2007 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
She and Brandon, who teaches interior design at High Point University, are still happily married, and they have two rowdy dogs, Bishop and Martha. (From the author's website.)