Hollis Seamon

Hollis Seamon's mystery novel, FLESH, has been released by Memento Mori Mysteries of Avocet Press. FLESH features "the endlessly fascinating graduate student Suzanne Brown, who has renamed herself 'Suzanne LaFleshe'.... LaFleshe's ubiquitous, skinny, rustic, yet devilishily efficient assistant is almost as intriguing as the heroine, but with an entirely different set of neuroses." (ForeWord Magazine, July/​August 2005). The main character of FLESH also appears in the title story of an anthology from The Feminist Press, THE STRANGE HISTORY OF SUZANNE LaFLESHE: AND OTHER STORIES OF WOMEN AND FATNESS (November 2003).

Hollis Seamon’s book of short stories, BODY WORK, was published by Spring Harbor Press in 2000. A Publishers Weekly review (April 10, 2000) described the book: “The lives of women and girls are unconventionally and richly explored in Body Work by Hollis Seamon. With precise prose alternately chatty and subtly resonant, Seamon delves into female adolescence, body issues, sexuality, relationships between mothers and daughters, and other themes, often keenly revealing the magical, uncanny and symbolic meanings in everyday life.” Douglas Glover called the book, “A sexy, edgy collection of stories about women on the brink.”

Seamon’s short stories have recently appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Fiction International, The Nebraska Review, The Chicago Review, Calyx, and on-line at www.whalelane.com and Pierian Springs. Her work has been included in anthologies such as Food and Other Enemies: Stories of Consuming Desire (Essex Press, 2000), A Line of Cutting Women (Calyx Books, 1998), and Sacred Ground: Writings About Home (Milkweed Editions, 1996). Her stories have also been noted in Best American Essays 1998 and O. Henry Prize Stories: The Best of 1997. Seamon has received a fiction fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Hollis Seamon lives in Kinderhook NY and teaches writing and literature at the College of Saint Rose in Albany.