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HOLLY WREN SPAULDING
Poet Holly Wren Spaulding grew up in an intentional community in rural northern Michigan, surrounded by artists and activists who were engaged in social and political experiments that centered on creativity, peacemaking, self-reliance, and ecological thinking.
Since those formative days, she has collaborated with performing artists, composers, and filmmakers, while developing a particular affection for what happens when she shares studio space with printers and book artists.
Holly has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net awards, and her writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, Witness, The Ecologist, and in Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction (Wayne State University Press, 2018), and We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rose of Global Anticapitalism.
Previous poetry collections include Familiars (2020), If August (2017) and Pilgrim (2014), all from Alice Greene & Company. In 2021, St. Brigid Press brought out a special edition of her chapbook Fire. Her chapbook, Between Us, is due out in 2022.
She lives on the southern seacoast of Maine where she runs Poetry Forge.
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