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Holly M. Wendt

Holly M. Wendt is Director of Creative Writing at Lebanon Valley College and recipient of a Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship for Creative and Performing Artists from the American Antiquarian Society and a fellowship from the Jentel Foundation. Their writing has appeared in Shenandoah, Four Way Review, Memorious, and elsewhere. Learn more at hollymwendt.com and find them on Twitter at @hmwendt.

Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Holly M. Wendt

Aug 13, 2021

Finding Meaning in Where the Why Leads: Talking with Kyle Beachy

Kyle Beachy discusses his new memoir, THE MOST FUN THING.
Features & Reviews, Reviews

Holly M. Wendt

Sep 9, 2020

What Is (and Isn’t) Held in the Light: Diane Zinna’s The All-Night Sun

Trauma’s wing conceals and reveals.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Holly M. Wendt

Feb 7, 2020

Too Bright to Belong: A Conversation with Clare Beams

Clare Beams discusses her debut novel, THE ILLNESS LESSON.
Rumpus Original

Holly M. Wendt

Nov 4, 2014

Leaving Early

I wasn’t looking at them, but I felt I should have been. It’s an act of bravery, to see and be seen, isn’t it? A way to connect? And wasn’t I, just then, needing to feel something like brave?
Last Book I Loved, Rumpus Original

Holly M. Wendt

Mar 8, 2013

The Last Book I Loved: History of the Peloponnesian War

This is not an easy book to love. As an object, it is one of those books all of an age: squat, with yellowing, pulpy pages, the kind whose corners you can’t turn down