Maggie Cooper and Chad Holley Alumni Fiction Reading

The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host an alumni fiction reading by Maggie Copper and Chad Holley on Thursday, November 7th at 6PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.

MAGGIE COOPER is the author of the short story collection, The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies (Bull City Press 2024). A graduate of Yale College, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Ninth Letter, Inch, and elsewhere. She lives with her spouse in the Boston area and also works as a literary agent.

CHAD HOLLEY is the author of the novel, Shield the Joyous (Bull City Books 2024). A native of Mississippi, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a law degree in California, where until recently he served as a judicial attorney for the California Court of Appeal and now teaches law. His stories and essays have appeared in various publications, including The Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, storySouth, and Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Mystery Stories.He lives in Los Angeles with singer-songwriter Claire Holley and their two sons.