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Noy Holland

Noy Holland is the author of three collections of short fiction, Swim for the Little One First (Fiction Collective Two), What Begins with Bird (Fiction Collective Two), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf). She teaches in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

Fiction

Jan/Feb 2015

Monocot

By Noy Holland

He served a few years in the Merchant Marine and so named his sons Anchor, Hawser, and Rudder. The names amused him. The boys didn’t come to much. The eldest […]