Beckoning

HOLLIE ADAMS, originally from Windsor, Ontario, now lives in Bangor, Maine, teaching Creative Writing and Canadian Literature at the University of Maine. She studied at the University of Windsor and holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Hollie is the author of the novel Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother (NeWest Press, 2015) and the short story collection Dear Humans (NeWest Press, 2026). She has served as the fiction editor of The Windsor Review and as Resident Artist at Acadia National Park. Her poetry and prose have been published in magazines and anthologies including Geist, The New Quarterly, Room, Carousel, Contemporary Verse 2, Best Canadian Poetry, and Best Canadian Essays.