Bio

Short version

Joseph Holt is author of the story collection Golden Heart Parade. He grew up in South Dakota and graduated from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Holt has taught at Catapult, the American College of Norway, the University of Minnesota, and elsewhere. He now serves on the MFA faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His writing has appeared in The Sun, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, and has received an AWP Intro Journals Award.

Long version

Joseph Holt is author of the story collection Golden Heart Parade, winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Book Prize. He writes fiction and nonfiction, and his writing has appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, and elsewhere. His story “Make It Yours”—included in Golden Heart Parade—received an AWP Intro Journals Award. He has received scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Community of Writers Workshops.

Holt graduated from the University of South Dakota (B.L.S.), the University of North Dakota (M.A.), and the University of Southern Mississippi (PhD). He has taught at Catapult, the Loft Literary Center, the American College of Norway, the University of Minnesota, and South Dakota State University. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he advises the campus literary journal Ice Box. He has volunteered as a manuscript reader for Mississippi Review and A Public Space, and he formerly worked for the South Dakota Humanities Council. Holt is a runner, cross-country skier, and former radio deejay. He’s on Instagram and Twitter.