Cary Holladay

Cary Holladay is an American writer and professor, best known for her historical short fiction. In 1999, her story "Merry-Go-Sorry" about the West Memphis Three murder case was selected by Stephen King for an O. Henry Award.
Biography.
Originally from Virginia, Holladay graduated from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. and then went on to earn an M.A. from Pennsylvania State University.
She is the author of a novel, "Mercury"; a novella, "A Fight in the Doctor's Office"; and six collections of short fiction. She taught in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, with her husband, the poet John Bensko, and retired in 2020; her honors held there included a First Tennessee Professor Award.
Her stories have appeared in over sixty literary journals and anthologies, including "New Stories from the South" and "The Oxford American".