Holly Stark is a writer and children’s book author from North Lincolnshire exploring ecology, attention, ritual and Northern culture through essays, literary nonfiction and storytelling.
Her work is rooted in place, moving between the Humber estuary, Yorkshire landscapes, cafés, libraries, gardens and overlooked everyday spaces. She writes about birding, collective care, environmental imagination, memory, slowness and the emotional textures of ordinary life.
Blending reportage, memoir, cultural criticism and lyrical observation, Holly’s writing is interested in the relationship between humans and the natural world, particularly ecological grief, resilience and connection.
She is currently developing a body of longform nonfiction exploring eco-love, ritual, community and Northern identity, alongside children’s literature inspired by folklore, water, travel and landscape.
Holly is an MA Creative Writing graduate from the University of Hull.
Her work explores the idea that attention itself can be a form of resistance: to burnout, speed, isolation and disconnection.
Based in North Lincolnshire, UK.
For commissions, pitches, workshops or collaborations:
hollystark95@gmail.com
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