Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and her poetry, short stories, and personal essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines around the world, including The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead. The Antigonish Review, Today’s Parent, and CBC Parents. Fuse, her acclaimed memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, was released with Radiant Press in April 2023 and in 2022, its title poem won The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Prize. Hollay's short-fiction collection, Widow Fantasies, is due out with Gordon Hill Press in 2024. Her debut novel is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press in spring 2026 and her children’s book with Guernica Editions in 2027.

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