About the Writer
K. P. F. Holmes is a fiction writer and English teacher. She has completed two summer fiction workshops at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently earning her MFA in Fiction at Emerson College, where she teaches Composition & Rhetoric and Research Writing. Her favorite writers include Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and, of course, Shakespeare. She lives in Boston with her seashell collection and slowly dying succulents.
Published Works
“Donnelly Ride” – Stork Magazine, forthcoming
“White Macaw” – Leonardo Audio/Nor’easter Publishing, forthcoming
“Last Night in Havana: A Narrative of Cuban-American Relations” – Wellesley Weston, Spring 2025
“St. Elmo’s Fire” – CALYX, Winter/Spring 2025. Watch the live reading of CALYX 35:1 here and listen to the full audio of “St. Elmo’s Fire” here
“A Corner-Cutter’s Guide to Magazine Submission: Devising a Sustainable and Empowering System for Ongoing Submission” – The PopFic Collective, Oct 2024
“El cenote” – Lucky Jefferson, Sept 2024
“Alcoves” – Feels Blind, June 2024
“Asphyxia” – Page Turner Magazine, May 2024
“The Floater” – Bombfire Lit, Jan 2024
“The Guardian” – Eternal Haunted Summer, Dec 2023
“The Kind One” – Cauldron Anthology, June 2022
“Home Movie” – Capulet Magazine, Nov 2021
“Blue Giantess” – Litbreak, Feb 2021
“Player 210” – Emerging Writers 2019: YA Edition, Z Publishing, Aug 2019
“The Trolley Car Ghost” – Emerging Writers 2019, Z Publishing, Aug 2019
“American Pharaoh” – Illinois’s Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction, Z Publishing, Aug 2018
“Michelangelo” – Sliced Bread, Mar 2017
Awards
“Hey, Boyo” – Honorable Mention, Graduate Writing Award – Nonfiction, Emerson College
“Blue Dragon” – Longlist, 2024 Ghosts Contest, judged by Aimee Bender, Fractured Literary
“The Sneak” – Longlist, 2024 Ghosts Contest, judged by Aimee Bender, Fractured Literary
“The Guardian” – Longlist, 2023 Summer Short Story Award for New Writers, judged by Jai Chakrabarti, The Masters Review
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