Bio: 

Holly Lyn Walrath is a writer, editor, and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Analog, and Flash Fiction Online. Her poetry has been featured on NPR, The Houston Chronicle, Art Houston Magazine, and Houston Arts Journal. She is the author of several books of poetry including Glimmerglass Girl (2018), Numinose Lapidi (2020), and The Smallest of Bones (2021). She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. In 2019, she launched Interstellar Flight Press, an indie SFF publisher dedicated to publishing underrepresented genres and voices. 

A full list of interviews and press coverage is available here.

CV/Resume

​Education
Masters of Liberal Arts in Creative Writing (2013-2015)

• University of Denver

Bachelors of Arts, English (2003-2007)

• University of Texas, Austin

 
Research and Publications
 
Books

• Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
• Numinose Lapidi (Italian, Kipple Press, 2020)
• The Smallest of Bones (Clash Books, 2021)
• Il più piccolo fra le ossa (Italian, Kipple Press, 2022)
• Numinous Stones (Aqueduct Press, Forthcoming) 

 
Publications – Fiction

• The Last Man on Earth – Grievous Angel (2015)
• The Mermaid Hunt - Pulp Literature (2015)
• A Day with No Mirrors - The Vestal Review (2015)
• When I Wore Pink Boots - Spider Road Press (2015)
• Confessions of a Tree Nymph – 365 Tomorrows (2015)
• In the Dark World – Literary Orphans (2016)
• The Thirteenth Ride – Vine Leaves (2016)
• We Are Never What We Intend - Freeze Frame Fiction (2016)
• We Are Not the Young – Litro Magazine (2017)
• The Joy of Baking – Luna Station Quarterly (2017), reprinted in Wizards and Space, issue #3.
• knick knack, knick knack – Fireside Fiction (2018)
• Stardust – Robots & Artificial Intelligence (Flame Tree Publications, 2018)
• Tarot of the Animal Lords – Shards Anthology (Spring Song Press, 2018)
• After the First Comes the Last – Daily Science Fiction (2018)
• This Isn’t a Home, It’s a Wilderness – Flame Tree Publishing (2018)
• The Red Shoes – Crone Girls Press – Coppice & Brake Anthology (2020)
• The Asylum – Horror Writers Association – Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology (2022)
• Trinity's Dragon - Sunday Morning Transport (2022) 

 
Publications – Poetry

• A Red Sky – Vine Leaves Literary Journal (2015)
• Sheaves of Wheat, Break of Day – Page & Spine (2016)
• Behind the Glass and Other Poems – Sixfold (2016)
• Revolution – Abyss & Apex (2016)
• Powder Keg – Silver Blade Magazine (2016)
• Night Raven – Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry (2016)
• Woven – Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry (2016)
• Bearing the Light – Penumbra (2016)
• Peony Red – Literary Orphans (2016)
• For Lonnie – Liminality (2016)
• Elegy for a Body and Other Poems – Sixfold (2016)
• Cetecean Prosthesis – Star*Line (2016)
• Ship of Jinn – Kaleidotrope (2017)
• Man, Erased – UnLost Journal (2017)
• Lolita & City Visible – The Fem (2017)
• Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song – Liminality (2017)
• Spring Will Come Again – Abyss & Apex (2017)
• My City of Ruin – Mithila Review (2017)
• Lunar Girl Drinks Poetry from the Stars – Mithila Review (2017)
• Reflection – Mithila Review (2017)
• The Hearts of Robots – Dreams & Nightmares Magazine (2017)
• Grayslick – By&By Poetry (2017)
• Of Whales in Paint and Other Erasures – Crab Fat Magazine (2017)
• Bird House – Strange Horizons (2017)
• Hazard Pay – Houston Chronicle (2017)
• Dear Shotgun City – Eye to the Telescope (2017)
• How I Lost My Chastity – Liminality (2017)
• Dear John Cusack – Alyss Magazine (2017)
• Confessions of a Supermassive Black Hole – Grievous Angel (2017)
• Espejitos – Isacoustic (2018)
• Anvil Crawler – ARTHouston (Ekphrastic, 2018), reprinted in the Ekphrastic Review
• A Woman – Storyscape (Erasure, 2018)
• She Was a Nice Little Nothing – Storyscape (Erasure, 2018)
• Sea Fog – Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More (Apex Publications, 2018)
• Orbital Debris – Really System (2018)
• Boll Heart – Nice Cage (2018)
• And Farther Death Goes – Nice Cage (2018)
• A Deep Enough Abyss – Nice Cage (2018)
• Dead-Eye Girl – Liminality (2018)
• Erasure – ARTHouston Magazine (2018)
• What it Feels Like to Play Video Games as a Woman  - Terse Journal (2018)
• A Terrible Meat-Eating God – Star*Line & Blood Bath Lit Zine (2018)
• How We Got Here – Dreams & Nightmares (2018)
• Dear Childhood – Texas Poetry Calendar (2018)
• All the Glory of Her Earthly Shell – Kaleidotrope (2019)
• Bayou Dream – The Knicknackery (2019)
• An Unknowing Breach of the Law – Dreams & Nightmares (2019)
• Chopin Falls in Love with the Night – The Avenue (2019)
• A Book is a Tomb and Words are Souls – Not One of Us (2019)
• The Space Between Us – Space & Time Magazine (2019)
• Farewell Dead Men – Mirror Dance (2019)
• Belly of the Beast – Apparition Lit (2019)
• Daughters Saving Mothers – Liminality (2020)
• Now the Patient Recounts the Houses in Her Mind – Eye to the Telescope (2020)
• Acacia – Liminality (2020)
• Dear Future – Star*Line (2020)
• We Hold Up Eternity - Twisted Moon Mag (2020)
• We’re Refugees Who Found Love Searching for Atlantis – Mithila Review (2021)
• Sacrum – Barely South Review (2021)
• A Keen for the Sea King’s Daughter – Eye to the Telescope (2021)
• "Literature for Ukraine"  – Houston Arts Journal (2022) 
• Water Drawn from a Stone – Not One of Us, Issue #71, July 2022

 
 Awards - Poetry

• For Lonnie – Liminality – Nominated for a 2016 SFPA Rhysling Award
• Revolution – Abyss & Apex – Nominated for a 2016 SFPA Rhysling Award
• Lace at the Throat – 3rd place winner, 2017 SFPA Contest
• Dead-Eye Girl – Liminality – Nominated for a 2019 SFPA Rhysling Award
• Glimmerglass Girl – Winner of the 2019 SFPA Elgin Award
• The Fox and the Forest – Winner of the 2019 SFPA Poetry Contest, short form
• The Mining Town – Winner of the 2019 SFPA Poetry Contest, long form, Nominated for a 2020 SFPA Rhysling Award, Finalist in the 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition
• Man Erased, Finalist in the Not a Cult  2019 Stories Award for Poetry.
• Acacia – Liminality – Nominated for the 2020 SFPA Rhysling Award
• Daughters Saving Mothers – Liminality – Nominated for the 2020 SFPA Rhysling Award
• The Smallest of Bones - Nominated for the 2022 SFPA Elgin Award, nominated for a Ladies of Horror Fiction Award in poetry 
• Numinous Stones - Semi-finalist for the 2021 Tomaž Šalamun Prize

 
Publications - Nonfiction

• Apollo Chamber Player Explores Texas Roots – Arts + Culture Texas (2015)
• Shakespeare in Print and Performance at the Harry Ransom Center – Arts + Culture Texas (2015)
• A Community Rebuilt – Arts + Culture Texas (2015)
• Defining Art – ARTHouston Magazine (2015)
• Forty Years of Being Moody – ARTHouston Magazine (2016)
• A Banner Year: DiverseWorks Moves to the Match – Arts + Culture Texas (2016)
• Women at the Podium: The Dallas Opera Institute for Women Conductors – Arts + Culture Texas (2016)
• Writing in Texas: Recent and Upcoming Books from Texas Authors – Arts + Culture Texas (2016)
• Book From the Sky: Xu Bing’s Breakthrough Work Comes to Texas – Arts + Culture Texas (2016)
• The Art of Writing Houston – ARTHouston Magazine (2017)
• The Art of Receiving Criticism – The Artist Unleashed (2017)
• Post-Hurricane Harvey, Houston Breweries Give Back – All About Beer (2017)
• Review: Consolation Prize by Tyler Robert Sheldon – Entropy Magazine (2018)
• Manifestos: Six Principles of Flash Fiction – Cotton Xenomorph (2018)
• Review: Dear Judas by Melissa Jennings – Up the Staircase (2018)
• YUM-DERDOME: Oh My Sweet Pickle Babies – Cotton Xenomorph (2018)
• The Cone of Silence – Dream Foundry (2019)
• Darkness & Light – Horror Writer’s Association (2019)
• Making Space for Art – ARTHouston Magazine (2019)
• Promises to Houston – ARTHouston Magazine (2019)
• The Art of Success – College of the Mainland Horizons Magazine (2020)

 Conferences,  Events, and Workshops 

• Stonecoast Writers Conference (Scholarship Winner - 2014)
• Glen West Writers Conference (Scholarship Winner - 2015)
• The Child and the Book International Conference (Presenter - 2015)
• Lighthouse Literary Center – Litfest Juried Workshop (2016)
• AWP (2016)
• Eastext – Collaborative project with Pablo Gimenez Zapiola (2016)
• Comicpalooza (Panelist - 2015-2017)
• Armadillocon (Panelist - 2017)
• Art + Words Fort Worth (Featured Writer – 2017)
• World Fantasy Con (Panelist – 2017)
• Futurescapes Writers Workshop (2018)
• IllogiCon (Panelist – 2018)
• ReaderCon (Panelist – 2018)
• Texas Book Festival (Table – 2018)
• Art + Words Fort Worth (Featured Writer – 2018)
• Comicpalooza (Panelist – 2019)
• People’s Poetry Festival, Corpus Christi (Panelist  – 2019)
• Readercon (Panelist – 2019)
• Armadillocon (Workshop Leader – 2019)
• Gemini Ink Conference (Panelist – 2019)
• Writespace Workshop  – The Writing Life 101 (Instructor – 2019)
• Poetry Barn Workshop  – Resistance Through Erasure (Instructor – 2019)
• Gemini Ink Workshop – The Writing Life 101 (Instructor – 2019)
• Malvern Books – Speculative Poetry Reading (2019)
• Color:Story – Featured Writer (2019)
• The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center – Exhibiting Artist (2021)
• Flights of Foundry (Panelist – 2021)
• Writing Workshops Dallas Workshop – Writing Speculative Short Fiction (Instructor – 2021)
• Poetry Barn Workshop – Re-Visioning Your Poetry (Instructor – 2021)
• Readercon (Panelist – 2021)
• FenCon Dallas (Panelist – 2021)
• Armadillocon Austin (Workshop Instructor – 2021)
• Poetry Barn Workshop – Speculative Poetics (Instructor – 2021)
• Fairway Library – Journaling Your Way Through NaNoWriMo (Instructor – 2021)
• Poetry Barn Workshop – Science Poetry (Instructor – 2022)
• Nebraska Poetry Society – Journaling for Poets (Instructor – 2022)
• Poetry Barn Workshop – NaPoWriMo: 30 Poems in 30 Days (Instructor  – 2022)
• Writefest (Coordinator, 2022) 
• Poetry Barn Workshop – Queer Poetics (Instructor – 2022)
• Writing Workshops Dallas Workshop  – Writing Speculative Short Fiction (Instructor – 2022)
• Armadillocon Austin (Workshop Instructor – 2022)
• Strong Women, Strange Worlds (Featured Reader – 2022) 
• World Science Fiction Convention Chicago (Panelist – 2022) 
• Roanoke Writers Conference (Keynote Speaker  – 2022) 
• Writing Workshops Dallas Workshop  – Micro and Flash Fiction (Instructor  – 2022)
• Multiverse Atlanta (Panelist  – 2022) 
• World Fantasy Convention (Panelist  – 2022) 
• Writing Workshops Dallas Workshop – Journaling for Writers (Instructor – 2022) 

Publications Edited

• Our Space: Shorts & Poetry from the Houston Community (2015)
• Eye to the Telescope, Issue 28, "Time" April 2018
• Interstellar Flight Magazine (2019 - Present) 
• The Manticore's Vow by Cassandra Rose Clarke (Interstellar Flight Press, 2019)
• Twelve by Andrea Blythe (Interstellar Flight Press, 2020) 
• Local Star by Aimee Ogden (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021) 
• Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota by Amelia Gorman (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021)
  • Winner of the SFPA Elgin Award for best chapbook
• Can You Sign My Tentacle? by Brandon O'Brien (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021) 
  • Winner of the SFPA Elgin Award for best full-length poetry book
• Level Five by William Ledbetter (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022) 
• Escaping the Body by Chloe N. Clark (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022)
• The Future Second by Second by Meridel Newton (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022) 
• The Gravity of Existence by Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022) 

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Memberships

• SFPA (2016-Current)
• Editorial Freelancers Association (2017-Current)
• Codex (2017-Current)

Visual Works