{"id":18675,"date":"2018-06-23T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/?post_type=stories&p=18675"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:25:15","slug":"alumni-bio-holly-williams-doering","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/alumni-bio-holly-williams-doering\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Williams Doering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holly Williams Doering<\/strong> grew up in a USFS family in the mountains of McCall, Idaho. She wandered through the world in her youth: Studying literature at University of Idaho, teaching English in Tokyo, Japan;\u00a0\u00a0bicycling through India, Thailand, and Malaysia;\u00a0\u00a0then teaching inmates to read at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Virginia. Afterward, she was accepted into 2 different writing programs. Although EWU didn\u2019t offer a teaching assistantship like the other programs at the time, she chose EWU due to Spokane\u2019s vibrant writing scene: (1) the large number of generous writers in the community like Jess Walter, Sherman Alexie, Linda Lawrence Hunt, Claire Rudolph Murphy, Sherry Jones, and so many more (2) Auntie\u2019s Bookstore, which brings in big-name authors like Chuck Palahniuk and David Sedaris, and features exciting new writers like Asa Maria Bradley (an EWU grad with a Scandinavian paranormal series) and (3) EWU\u2019s Get Lit! program which brings writers to the city like Alexander McCall Smith and Walter Mosley. Spokane is a wonderful place to live and that \u201csense of place\u201d is very important to Holly\u2019s writing.<\/p>\n

Fun fact: After her graduation from the MFA program, Holly learned her EWU application was almost rejected because it was on stonewashed pink paper. Her publication list is eclectic, as follows: Holly is a second-place winner of the Pacific Northwest\u00a0Inlander<\/em>\u2019s annual Flash Fiction contest and a one-time judge of the event, although not in the same year. She wrote for\u00a0Spokane & Coeur d\u2019Alene Living<\/em>\u00a0magazine for almost a decade, in addition to serving as its Book Review Editor, and had one article in its sister publication, the\u00a0Inland Business Catalyst<\/em>. She also reviewed books for almost a decade for Foreword Reviews, a bookstore industry publication. Naturally, Holly works at Auntie\u2019s, since she can\u2019t manage to stay away from books. She didn\u2019t try very hard.<\/p>\n

In 2003, Holly published her short story \u201cBlue\u201d in\u00a0ZYZZYVA<\/em>, after which she was contacted by Richard Russo\u2019s agent about any longer fiction she might have ready. Holly\u2019s other projects include a blog in which she is reading one book from every country in the world, because she is tired of the cannon of old dead white guys. Visit her blog at 365bookworm.wordpress.com<\/span><\/a>. On a personal note, Holly and her husband, a former manager at Auntie\u2019s, are the companion humans to two rescued dogs, cats, and rats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holly Williams Doering grew up in a USFS family in the mountains of McCall, Idaho. She wandered through the world in her youth: Studying literature at University of Idaho, teaching English in Tokyo, Japan;\u00a0\u00a0bicycling through India, Thailand, and Malaysia;\u00a0\u00a0then teaching inmates to read at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Virginia. Afterward, she was accepted into…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":18676,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-18675","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-english-philosophy","stories_tags-mfa-alumni-bio"],"acf":{"subheading":"MFA Alumni Bio","featured_image_format":"cover","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false,"display_featured_image":true},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18822,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18675\/revisions\/18822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}