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Maeve Holler's debut collection, HOW TO LEAVE YOUR FAMILY, inspects the idea of family, the creation and destruction of it, and what being part of one really means. The book poetically and speculatively retraces the life story of Holler's late grandmother-who grows up in Mississippi, escapes an abusive relationship, and flees to Georgia, only to leave her two children behind-and the mass of folklore that has always surrounded her. Holler's poems follow the aftermath of this story and pick up the pieces her grandmother left behind, and together, ultimately taking the shape of a multigenerational, coming-of-self narrative of witness.…mehr

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Maeve Holler's debut collection, HOW TO LEAVE YOUR FAMILY, inspects the idea of family, the creation and destruction of it, and what being part of one really means. The book poetically and speculatively retraces the life story of Holler's late grandmother-who grows up in Mississippi, escapes an abusive relationship, and flees to Georgia, only to leave her two children behind-and the mass of folklore that has always surrounded her. Holler's poems follow the aftermath of this story and pick up the pieces her grandmother left behind, and together, ultimately taking the shape of a multigenerational, coming-of-self narrative of witness.
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Autorenporträt
Maeve Holler is a writer, editor, poet, and educator. Her work has been published by Tolsun Books, The Boiler Journal, Leveler, Scalawag Magazine, The Cardiff Review, Wildness, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2020 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize and was most recently nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Maeve holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami and a BA in English & Gender and Sexuality Studies from Tulane University. She currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.