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Dr. Holly M. Wendt

Holly Wendt

Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
Director of Creative Writing

Email: wendt@lvc.edu

Phone: 717-867-6403

Office Location: Humanities 207-D

Website: https://www.hollymwendt.com

Pronouns: They/Them

B.A., Lycoming College; M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., Binghamton University

Expertise:
Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction Writing, Sports Literature, Sports Writing, Early English Literature

Research & Practice Areas:
Creative Writing, Creative Writing Pedagogy, Sports Literature, Sports Writing

Selected Awards/Fellowships/Grants

  • Fellowship from the Hambidge Center (2020)
  • Sundress Academy for the Arts Residency (2020)
  • Vermont Studio Center Residency (2018)
  • Memorious/Writer’s Block Poetry Contest Winner (2014)
  • Robert and Charlotte Baron Creative and Performing Artist and Writers Fellow—American Antiquarian Society—(2014)
  • Jentel Arts Foundation Artist in Residence—(2013)
  • NISOD Excellence Award—(2011)
  • Binghamton University Commencement Student Speaker (2009)
  • Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award—Binghamton University (2009)
  • Graduate Student Creative Writing Award—PCEA Conference (2008)
  • Newman Research Grant—Binghamton University (2007)
  • Barry S. and Patricia A. Daneman Scholarship—Binghamton University (2007)
  • Graduate Student Teaching Award—Ohio University (2005)
  • Heading North, forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books (November 2023)
  • “Searching for Answers in the Enormous” in Ploughshares blog (April 2023)
  • “Discovery and Re-Discovery in Endpapers” in Ploughshares blog (February 2023)
  • “A Line in the World’s Imaginings” in Ploughshares blog (December 2022)
  • “Curing Season: Artifacts’ Exploration of Form” in Ploughshares blog (October 2022)
  • “Conversation in The Affirmations” in Ploughshares blog (April 2022)
  • “August” and “Spinster,” Passages North 43 (April 2022)
  • “What is a Ghost in the Throat For?” in Ploughshares blog (January 2022)
  • “Lepidoptery,” VIDA Review 7 (November 2021)
  • “The Bolton Strid,” Shenandoah 70.2 (July 2021)
  • “100 Miles of Baseball: An interview with Dale and Heidi LM Jacobs,” Baseball Prospectus (March 2021)
  • “Storytelling Refracted: Nathalie Léger’s Suite for Barbara Loden, Exposition, and The White Dress,” Rain Taxi, Issue 100 (December 2020, print)
  • “monsieur reynard,” Four Way Review 19 (November 2020)
  • “Philadelphia Phillies.” Baseball Prospectus 2020. Eds. R.J Anderson, Craig Goldstein, and Bret Sayre, 2020.
  • Weekly contributions to Baseball Prospectus’s Short Relief feature (March 2017—February 2020)
  • Contribution to “Every Atom: Whitman at 200.” Forthcoming from North American Review (2019)
  • “The Sum of Our Doing.” Forthcoming in Body Built for Game anthology, eds. Natalie Diaz and
  • “Elephant Graveyards.” Barrelhouse 15 (Spring 2016)
  • “Philadelphia Phillies.” Baseball Prospectus 2016. Eds. Patrick Dubuque, Sam Miller, and Jason Wojciechowski. Turner: Nashville, 2016. 371-374.
  • “The Coyotes of Chicago.” WhiskeyPaper (October 2015)—Best Small Fictions nominee
  • “What is here inserted comes from a Credible Hand.” Memorious 24 (Summer 2015)
  • “The Rogers Ladder.” Gulf Stream 13 (May 2015)
  • “Ghostie on Third.” Sport Literate (Late Winter 2015)
  • “Seeing, Believing, and Other Possibilities.” The Classical. 22 Jan. 2015. Web.
  • “Leaving Early.” The Rumpus (Nov. 2014). Web.
  • “Dreamfish.” Gray’s Sporting Journal Feb/March 2004: 56+. Print.
  • FYE 111: Get Medieval On It
  • FYE 112: Adapt, Survive
  • COE 208HU: Baseball Literature
  • ENG 225: English Literature I
  • ENG 226: English Literature II
  • ENG 250: Creative Writing Form & Theory
  • ENG 252/352: Creative Nonfiction Workshop
  • ENG 254/254: Fiction Workshop
  • ENG 451: Advanced Creative Writing