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Patrick Martin Holian (he/him/his) is a Mexican American writer from San Francisco. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California and a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill Journal, Arkansas Review, The Acentos Review, and PRISM international. Holian was a finalist for Michigan Quarterly Review’s 2021 Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize, was a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee, and was selected as a 2025 Creative Writing fellow in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts.