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B.J. Hollars (born 1984) is an American author of literary essays and nonfiction novels. He is the winner of the Blei/Derleth Nonfiction Award (2014) and the Society of Midland Authors Adult Nonfiction Award (2012). Hollars is the author of Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction (University of New Mexico Press, 2014), Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America (The University of Alabama Press, 2011) Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa (The University of Alabama Press, 2013) and three other nonfiction novels.

Life and work
B.J. Hollars was born in Monticello, Indiana in 1984. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama in 2010. Hollars's essays have appeared in The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Brevity, The Collagist, North American Review, Quarterly West, and many other literary journals. Hollars also holds the unofficial Alabama state record for most consecutive runs down a water slide. He has edited three books, which include You Must Be This Tall To Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside The Story (2009), Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings (2011) and Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction (2013).

Non-fiction Books

 * Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction, 
 * Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America
 * Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
 * Sightings: Stories 
 * Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction
 * Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings

Chapbooks

 * Greetings from Duluth
 * In Defense of Monsters

Essays

 * In the Heart of the Heart of Duluth / North American Review
 * Fabricating Fear / The Rumpus
 * Live Forever / The Rumpus
 * The Girl in the Surf / Creative Nonfiction
 * Goodbye, Tuscaloosa / TriQuarterly
 * Fifty Ways of Looking at Tornadoes / Quarterly West
 * To The Owl In The Tree Outside Our Hospital Window / DIAGRAM
 * On The Occurrence of March 20, 1981 and on the Occurrences of Every Night After / Brevity


 * The Shadow Room / Black Warrior Review
 * The Longest Wait / Devil's Lake
 * The Dead Clown's Knot / Bending Genre
 * Buckethead / Ascent
 * The Megatherium Club / The Collagist
 * Leningrad / The Collagist
 * Losing Dixie / storySouth
 * History Obscura / The Rappahannock Review
 * The Mathematics of Grief / Pithead Chapel