Charlotte Holmes is a writer, a poet, and a teacher of creative writing. Her first book, Gifts and Other Stories, was published in 1994. Forthcoming from BkMk Press in 2016, her new collection of stories, The Grass Labyrinth, has been hailed as "a contemporary classic."

Charlotte received her MFA in poetry writing from Columbia University, and her BA in English from Louisiana State University. She has also been a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. Since 1987, she has taught in the creative writing program at Penn State University's main campus, where she is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies and Director of Creative Writing.




Photo credit: Williamson Brasfield

Books

The Grass Labyrinth
BkMk Press, 2016

Gifts and Other Stories
Confluence Press, 1994



Anthologies:

New Stories From the South 2009, edited by Madison Smartt Bell

After O'Connor: Stories From Contemporary Georgia, edited by Hugh Ruppersburg

Awards

  • 2017 IPPY Gold Medal for the Short Story, The Grass Labyrinth, awarded by the Independent Publishers Association
  • 2017 Gold Medal for the Short Story, The Grass Labyrinth, awarded by Forward Magazine
  • Finalist, Coniston Prize for Outstanding Writing by Women
  • Narrative fiction prize (3rd place)
  • D.H. Lawrence Fellowship in Fiction
  • Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Fiction
  • Millay Colony Residencies in 2005 and 2008
  • Writers' Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, Inc.

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