Shelly Holder

Shelly Holder is a poet from Monrovia, CA who was a participant of the 2023-2024 Lighthouse Writer’s Poetry Collective, where she worked on her first manuscript, Naming the Marrow. She serves as the Associate Editor for Spillway, as well as the chapter lead for the San Gabriel Valley branch of Women Who Submit, an non-profit organization seeking to promote the publication of women and women identifying writers, especially in top tier literary journals. In her non-poetry life, she is pursuing a certificate in Library Sciences, while trying keep her houseplants alive. Her work can be found at Iron Horse Review and Ponder Review, among others, which are listed in full at her website www.shellyholder.com.