Bio

Patrick Martin Holian (he/him/his) is a Mexican American writer from San Francisco,
California. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint. Mary’s College of California and
a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Barrelhouse, Bennington Review, The Acentos Review, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere.He was a 2019 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest fiction finalist, a finalist for Michigan Quarterly Review’s 2021 Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize, and is a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee.