Meet the Staff
Director, Fellowship Program
Hilary Holladay
Director, Fellowship Program
Hilary Holladay is a graduate of the University of Virginia, with an M.A. from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author or coeditor of five books, including Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton (LSU Press, 2004) and What’s Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (coeditor with Robert Holton; Southern Illinois UP, 2009). In addition to directing the Fellowship Program and helping with the Virginia Festival of the Book, Hilary is completing a biography of the Beat Movement author Herbert Huncke.
Program Associate
Ann White Spencer
Program Associate
Ann White Spencer earned a B.A. in English from Elon College and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She worked for a number of years as a journalist in North Carolina before moving into higher education, where she has taught in community colleges in North Carolina and Virginia. In 2002 she joined the VFH, where her duties include day-to-day operations of the Fellowship Program, publishing projects for the Center on Violence and Community, and grant writing for Research and Education. Ann has worked for most of her career as a writer and editor, and continues to write fiction.
