• March 13, 2023

This spring, Amanda Cockrell ’69, M.A. ’88 is immersing readers in the unrest of the Vietnam War era with her new book “Coyote Weather.” The historical novelist, who retired in 2018 as director of Hollins’ graduate programs in children’s literature, is currently is managing editor of Hollins University’s literary journal, The Hollins Critic, and the author of numerous books under her own name and the pseudonym Damion Hunter.

• February 6, 2023

Award-winning poet and novelist Pablo Medina promises that “you’ll be heartened by the wisdom, clarity, and honesty” of the new poetry collection by Professor of English Emerita Cathryn Hankla ’80, M.A. ’82. “Immortal Stuff,” published by Mercer University Press, is Hankla’s 11th volume of poetry and second full-length collection of prose poems.

• December 1, 2022

Hollins President Mary Dana Hinton and Debra Humphreys of the Lumina Foundation have written a chapter for a new higher education reference work. “Seeking Equity, Quality, and Purpose as Higher Education Transforms: Liberal Arts Colleges Respond” is featured in “New Models of Higher Education: Unbundled, Rebundled, Customized, and DIY.”

• September 23, 2022

The often lost and surprising senses of the world and of words are exhumed in “According to Sand,” the new volume of poems by Thorpe Moeckel, associate professor of English and director of the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University.

• by Marin Harrington
• October 13, 2021

Published by University Press of Mississippi, Professor of English Julie Pfeiffer’s “Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth Century Adolescence” analyzes a variety of since-forgotten mid-nineteenth-century bestsellers that were aimed at adolescent girls in the United States and Germany.

• July 13, 2021

The fifth and sixth books by Edward A. Lynch, John P. Wheeler Professor of Political Science, offer analysis of two of the Middle East’s most significant political crises in recent years.

• July 12, 2021

Poets Maddie Gallo and Gabriel Reed are celebrating the completion of their respective graduate degrees at Hollins as well as the publication of each writer’s first collections of poetry.

• by Jeff Dingler
• May 13, 2021

Published by Riverhead Books, “Leda and the Swan” is a collegiate coming-of-age tale mixed with classic suspense and, of course, some references to Greek mythology. Time magazine calls it an “affecting narrative about consent, power and loneliness.”

• May 11, 2021

An illustrated children’s storybook, “Padapillo” offers hope and information to families experiencing early childhood hearing loss. “I understand first-hand what happens to children if their hearing loss goes unidentified,” said Valerie James Abbott ’93. “I am passionate about helping other parents in a similar situation.”

• By Jeff Dingler
• March 25, 2021

Eight years in the making, van Eerden’s third novel won the 2019 Dzanc Books Prize. “It’s a book that’s very close to me,” she said.