Tamara Hollins

March 2015

About Festival Writer

 

Issues

 

Submission Guidelines

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Tamara Hollins has earned the following degrees: a B.A. in Art, with distinction, from Hendrix College; an M.A. in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University; an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature from Bennington College; and a Ph.D. in English from Claremont Graduate University.  Her scholarly work, creative writing, and art have been published in journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias.  Her research interest is the production and the construction of identity in American literature.  She is an Associate Professor of English.

give all

 

the metal burned her back on the hood of the car

she’d driven down the highway

feeling restless

feeling lost

the metal burned

and she felt the sweat running over her flesh

the sun blazed overhead

through the green, green of the leaves

and it was a beautiful summer day

and she fought

as he pushed her back on the hood of the car

and called her Deborah

which wasn’t even her name

but the name of some woman who’d cheated on him

and he must have loved her

had some pathological dependence on her

some obsession

that made him strong in his desire

for this woman

whom she was not

and she fought

the metal burning

the gnats biting

a feast

in the summer

 

 

3:3 Marach 2015

 

Craig Kurtz

M.J. Iuppa

Tamara Hollins

Nancy Chen Long

Jonathan Beale

Darren C. Demaree