B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, most recently Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country, The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders, and Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds. Hollars is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, the Council of Wisconsin Writers’ Blei-Derleth Award, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. He is the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, a columnist for the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, and an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
