Hollie Hardy

Poet

Austin, TX
Texas US
Email: 
writenow@holliehardy.com
Website: 
www.holliehardy.com
Twitter/X: 
@ThatHollieHardy

Author's Bio

HOLLIE HARDY is a poet, educator, and award-winning author of Lions Like Us (Red Light Lit Press 2024) and How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press 2014). She holds an MFA in Poetry from SFSU and teaches private poetry workshops online and in person. She is the founder of Praxis Poetry: Weekly Prompts for Poets and hosts the long-running monthly reading series Saturday Night Special, a Virtual Open Mic. Publications include The Common, Fourteen Hills, Colossus, Eleven Eleven, Passionfruit Review, MiGoZine, sPARKLE & bLink, Parthenon West Review, and other journals. She lives in Austin, TX. Find out more at holliehardy.com

Education: 
San Francisco State University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Lions Like Us (Red Light Lit Press, 2024)
,
How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014)
Prizes won: 

Annual Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Ocean Vuong, Ada Limón, Natalie Diaz, Ilya Kaminsky, Carolyn Forché, Victoria Chang, Richard Siken, Kaveh Akbar, Ben Lerner, Sally Wen Mao, Max Ritvo, Tracy K. Smith

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Born in: 
MI
Michigan
Raised in: 
Oakland, CA
California
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Last update: Mar 05, 2025