Holly Iglesias is a poet, translator and author of two poetry collections, Angles of Approach (White Pine Press, 2010) and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World (Kore Press, 2008). Hands-on Saints, a chapbook, and Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry, a critical work, were published by Quale Press.

She teaches in the Master of Liberal Arts Program at the University of North Carolina-Asheville and has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Edward Albee Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has been anthologized in The Best of the Prose Poem, The House of Your Dreams, To Tell the Truth, and Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary American Women Poets Do Housework.

She grew up in St. Louis, went to college at Loyola New Orleans, and has lived in Zaragoza, Spain, Staten Island, Detroit, Wilmington, Houston, Providence, Miami, Tallahassee, Washington DC, and western Massachusetts. Her children and grandchildren live in Miami and she is married to the author Catherine Reid.