Holland received her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1994.

[1] Holland is a Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

She has also received fellowships from the University of Florida, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Her writing has appeared in The American Voice, Ploughshares,[2] Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Open City, Noon, and other publications.

Holland's most recent book is I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories, published in January 2017 by Counterpoint.