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Holly Goddard Jones

Holly Goddard Jones
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Holly Goddard Jones

Holly Goddard Jones is the author of the short story collection Girl Trouble. Her work has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, Tin House magazine, and elsewhere. She was a 2013 recipient of The Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Hillsdale Prize for Excellence in Fiction and a 2007 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and lives in Greensboro with her husband, Brandon, and two rowdy dogs.

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The Next Time You See Me will be released on February 12, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 12, 2013
The Next Time You See Me is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 12, 2013
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Tulsa World, March 31, 2013
...More than 100 pages into her first attempt at a novel, Holly Goddard Jones realized it was a failure. "I pretty unhappily decided to scrap it," says Jones, 33, an assistant professor of English at University of North Carolina at Greensboro...
South Carolina State, March 31, 2013
...University’s Literary Festival kicks off Wednesday. A variety of award-winning authors will give readings through April 7. Holly Goddard Jones, Ben Mirov and Glenn Shaheen will read at 4 p.m. Thursday at 356 Sushi and Martini Bar, and David Abrams,...
The Olympian, March 27, 2013
...GINA WEBB By GINA WEBB "The Next Time You See Me" by Holly Goddard Jones; Touchstone Books (386 pages, $24.99) The small-town setting of "The Next Time You See Me," Holly Goddard Jones' debut novel, is no place for the faint...
Macon Telegraph, March 27, 2013
...CHANEY — Lexington Herald-Leader LEXINGTON, Ky. - More than 100 pages into her first attempt at a novel, Holly Goddard Jones realized it was a failure. "I pretty unhappily decided to scrap it," says Jones, 33, an assistant professor of English at...
Huffington Post, March 26, 2013
...about her second novel Kirkus Review wrote, "Domingue entwines genres to cast a spell upon its reader) said: Holly Goddard Jones (about whom the New York Times wrote "Ms. Jones has a talent for making even scenes apart from the central mystery feel...
Clemson University, March 25, 2013
...Magazine. The Literary Festival will host a number of other award-winning authors in the Downtown Reading Series. Authors Holly Goddard Jones, Ben Mirov and Glenn Shaheen will read at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at 356 Sushi and Martini Bar, 366...
Bookslut, March 4, 2013
...genre. Harris means the plot, of course, but the answers, order, and clarity of , the debut novel from Holly Goddard Jones, come as much from the book's emotional depth as its narrative. Even more impressive is how Jones's mystery generates its...
USA Today, February 10, 2013
...Holly Goddard Jones’ debut novel is 'Gone Girl'-esque...
seattlepi.com, February 7, 2013
...Page 1 of 1 Holly Goddard Jones, already an award winning writer of short fiction, turns to the longer form with her debut novel The Next Time You See Me. It is an auspicious beginning...
Blogcritics.org, February 7, 2013
..., already an award winning writer of short fiction, turns to the longer form with her debut novel . It is an auspicious beginning combining page-turning mystery with compelling characters that hook the reader in the first few pages and reel him in...
Winston-Salem Journal, February 3, 2013
...people at the table.” The authors include Melanie Benjamin, Wiley Cash, Christopher Castellani, Mark de Castrique, Emily Colin, Holly Goddard Jones, Judy Goldman, Heather Newton, Penelope Niven, Dana Sachs, Alice Sink and Susan Woodring. Other...
Ace Weekly, November 8, 2012
...year of eating locally. Read Heather Watson’s Ace review here. Barbara Kingsolver, credit: David Wood Kentucky native Holly Goddard Jones will have a new novel out in February 2013. Her essay “With All Best Wishes” gives Ace readers a little...