Chad Holley is a native of Mississippi. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a law degree in California, where until recently he served as a judicial attorney for the California Court of Appeal. He lives in Los Angeles with singer-songwriter Claire Holley.

 

Chad’s fiction and essays have appeared in, among other places, Shenandoah, Greensboro Review, storySouth, and Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Mystery Stories. He has written for The Food Network, and his feature screenplay, Kids Show, was a finalist in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. His work has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and the Speranza Foundation.