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B.J. Hollars
Eau Claire, WI
Born: 1984
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Biography:
B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, most recently The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders,  Flock Together: A Love Affair With Extinct Birds, From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human, as well as a collection of essays, This Is Only A Test. Additionally, he has also written Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America, Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa, Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction, and Sightings.  In the fall of 2019, his forthcoming book, Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country, will be released.  

Hollars serves as a mentor for Creative Nonfiction, and the  founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild. An associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, he lives a simple existence with his wife, their children, and their dog.

(From http://www.bjhollars.com/bio.html​)
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Works by  B.J. Hollars:
  • The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
  • ​Flock Together: A Love Affair With Extinct Birds
  • From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human
  • ​This Is Only A Test
  • Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America
  • Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
  • Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction
  • Sightings
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