Janet Holmes's Biography
Member Info
Boise, ID and Silver Bay, MN
to Alvin Greenberg, since 1993
Dec 2008
Author of The ms of m y kin (Shearsman), F2F, Humanophone, The Green Tuxedo (all U Notre Dame Pr), and The Physicist at the Mall (Anhinga). Editor, since 2000, of Ahsahta Press. Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University. Friend of animals.
Influences
For this latest book, Emily Dickinson, Ronald Johnson, Tom Phillips, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, and The New York Times.
Upcoming Works
The ms of m y kin is due in February from Shearsman Books.
Agents
none
Recommended Links
Publishers
Shearsman Books
University of Notre Dame Press
Anhinga Press
Interests & Hobbies
- hiking
- bicycling
- oil painting
- (on hiatus) quilting, needlepoint
About Janet
Author of The ms of m y kin (Shearsman), F2F, Humanophone, The Green Tuxedo (all U Notre Dame Pr), and The Physicist at the Mall (Anhinga). Editor, since 2000, of Ahsahta Press. Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University....
Causes Janet Holmes Supports
Small Press Distribution
Ahsahta Press
Janet’s Favorite Books
The Gift, by Lewis Hyde
The Descent of Alette, by Alice Notley
Dante's Divine Comedy (in as many translations as possible)
Light Years, by James Salter...