Holly Wren Spaulding is an award-winning writer, teaching artist, and founder of Poetry Forge, where she offers online creative writing workshops and a manuscript incubator.
 
Recent publications include Familiars, Fire, and Between Us. Spaulding's writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Poetry Northwest, New York Times, and in numerous anthologies including The Poetry of Presence and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal.
 
She studied creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy, University of Michigan, and Trinity College, Dublin, where she received a master’s of philosophy.