Bill Holm
Selected Bibliography
Boxelder Bug Variations: A Meditation on an Idea in Language and Music (1985)
The Music of Failure (1986)
Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays (1990)
The Dead Get By with Everything (1991)
Chocolate Chip Cookies For Your Enemies (1993)
Landscape of Ghosts (1993)
The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth (1996)
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death (1997)
Faces of Christmas Past (1998)
Eccentric Islands (2000)
Playing the Black Piano (2004)
Bill Holm (August 25, 1943-February 25, 2009) was an essayist, poet, and memoirist from Minneota, Minnesota. He grew up on a farm and later received higher education at Gustavus Aldophus College in St. Peter and University of Kansas. He taught at Southwest State University in Marshall until he retired. Holm would spend his summers in Iceland, where he did the majority of his writing.
A world traveler, many of Holm’s works focus on his accounts of the places he traveled, from Iceland to Madagascar, in addition to his native Minnesota. Holm received several awards for his works, including the Minnesota Book Award in both 1991 and 1997 and the McKnight Distinguished Artist of the Year in 2008. Some of Holm’s works include Coming Home Crazy, The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth, and Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland.