Catherine Dybiec Holm: Catherine Holm has published short stories, creative nonfiction, and numerous articles and essays. She won a 2006 McKnight/ARAC prose fellowship and a 2003 Minnesota State Arts Board prose fellowship to support her fiction.
Catherine is working on her third novel, and adding to her collection of 50+ short stories. The magic in everyday life is a big part of her writing, as is the importance of place.
Catherine is a self-employed freelance writer and editor. She lives in the northern Minnesota woods with her husband and several cats, dogs, and chickens. She enjoys reading, yoga, gardening, wilderness camping, and many outdoor activities.
"Catherine Holm writes with great and winning assurance and with
nuanced compassion. My Heart is a Mountain is a truly lovely book
by a fine writer."--Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "Catherine Holm is a
gifted storyteller. She explores the journeys we must all take
through grief and healing, life and death; and she writes of the
land with the passion of a lover. Her writing is both magical and
of the earth; lyrical and accessible. I highly recommend her
stories to anyone who listens for the heartbeat of the
earth."--Mary Casanova, author of The Klipfish Code "This fine
debut collection of stories has great variety, and both reach and
grasp of what it means to be fully human."--Will Weaver, author of
The Last Hunter: An American Family Album "The greatest strength in
each of the stories is Holm's ability to peer into the deepest
reaches of the minds of her characters and to so eloquently divulge
the secrets of their being, even more so than the characters
themselves would have the courage to admit to themselves. On the
whole, it's a terrific collection of stories by a gifted writer.
Each description of person or place speaks volumes of history, and
the pleasure, grief, bliss, and fear from the characters can almost
be tasted. Life and death, relationships, love and hate, missed
opportunities, and leaps of faith are a few of the literary
undercurrents one can dip their minds into by reading My Heart is a
Mountain."--Nathan Bergstedt, Grand Rapids Herald-Review "Catherine
Holm, of rural Cook, has a gift for storytelling and an emotional
connection with her subject matter that shines through in a new
collection of stories just released by Holy Cow! Press. Her stories
are varied and personal, with an efficiency of prose that is the
hallmark of all good short fiction. In this collection, we read of
disappearing men, detours, and transcendence."--Timberjay "I
enjoyed the diverse community of characters I met in the stories,
all dealing with magic and dreams, sadness and hope, and unexpected
endings. Catherine Holm is an excellent writer. Her stories grab
the imagination and hold on to it. The slim volume made for me one
day's good read. I look forward to more books by her."--Ken
Wachsberger, Editor, Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories
of the Vietnam Era Underground Press "America's mountains and
forests take a special type of individual to call them home. My
Heart is a Mountain: Tales of Magic and the Land is a collection of
short stories along with some memoir from Catherine Holm as she
speaks and reflects on mountain life and its special breed of
challenge and the exhilaration that comes with it. A fascinating
and insightful short fiction collection, My Heart is a Mountain is
very highly recommended."--Midwest Book Review "I would love to
know Catherine Holm. Have you ever felt that way about a writer you
have never read before? I've just read Holm's first short story
collection, My Heart is a Mountain. It's a series of beautifully
rendered and heartfelt stories about living on the land, which
Catherine Holm does with her husband Chris up in Cook,
Minnesota."--Dave Wood, River Falls Journal "Subtitled 'Tales of
Magic and the Land, ' the debut collection from this author who
lives near Cook is gracefully written, interesting and
compassionate."--Mary Ann Grossmann "Her stories often interweave
fantasy with life in the north woods, creating an intriguing mix of
otherworldly and iron-ore-clad reality good for a hot day's or cold
night's comfort."--Konnie LeMay, Lake Superior Magazine
"Catherine Holm writes with great and winning assurance and with
nuanced compassion. My Heart is a Mountain is a truly lovely book
by a fine writer."--Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "Catherine Holm is a
gifted storyteller. She explores the journeys we must all take
through grief and healing, life and death; and she writes of the
land with the passion of a lover. Her writing is both magical and
of the earth; lyrical and accessible. I highly recommend her
stories to anyone who listens for the heartbeat of the
earth."--Mary Casanova, author of The Klipfish Code "This fine
debut collection of stories has great variety, and both reach and
grasp of what it means to be fully human."--Will Weaver, author of
The Last Hunter: An American Family Album "The greatest strength in
each of the stories is Holm's ability to peer into the deepest
reaches of the minds of her characters and to so eloquently divulge
the secrets of their being, even more so than the characters
themselves would have the courage to admit to themselves. On the
whole, it's a terrific collection of stories by a gifted writer.
Each description of person or place speaks volumes of history, and
the pleasure, grief, bliss, and fear from the characters can almost
be tasted. Life and death, relationships, love and hate, missed
opportunities, and leaps of faith are a few of the literary
undercurrents one can dip their minds into by reading My Heart is a
Mountain."--Nathan Bergstedt, Grand Rapids Herald-Review "Catherine
Holm, of rural Cook, has a gift for storytelling and an emotional
connection with her subject matter that shines through in a new
collection of stories just released by Holy Cow! Press. Her stories
are varied and personal, with an efficiency of prose that is the
hallmark of all good short fiction. In this collection, we read of
disappearing men, detours, and transcendence."--Timberjay "I
enjoyed the diverse community of characters I met in the stories,
all dealing with magic and dreams, sadness and hope, and unexpected
endings. Catherine Holm is an excellent writer. Her stories grab
the imagination and hold on to it. The slim volume made for me one
day's good read. I look forward to more books by her."--Ken
Wachsberger, Editor, Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories
of the Vietnam Era Underground Press "America's mountains and
forests take a special type of individual to call them home. My
Heart is a Mountain: Tales of Magic and the Land is a collection of
short stories along with some memoir from Catherine Holm as she
speaks and reflects on mountain life and its special breed of
challenge and the exhilaration that comes with it. A fascinating
and insightful short fiction collection, My Heart is a Mountain is
very highly recommended."--Midwest Book Review "I would love to
know Catherine Holm. Have you ever felt that way about a writer you
have never read before? I've just read Holm's first short story
collection, My Heart is a Mountain. It's a series of beautifully
rendered and heartfelt stories about living on the land, which
Catherine Holm does with her husband Chris up in Cook,
Minnesota."--Dave Wood, River Falls Journal "Subtitled 'Tales of
Magic and the Land, ' the debut collection from this author who
lives near Cook is gracefully written, interesting and
compassionate."--Mary Ann Grossmann "Her stories often interweave
fantasy with life in the north woods, creating an intriguing mix of
otherworldly and iron-ore-clad reality good for a hot day's or cold
night's comfort."--Konnie LeMay, Lake Superior Magazine
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