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2025-2026 Writer in Residence: Holly G. Thompson

Holly Thompson
Holly G. Thompson

The Reilly Center is excited to welcome Holly G. Thompson as the Storozynski Writer in Residence for Spring 2026. The Storozynski Writing Fellowship, sponsored by the Health, Humanities, and Society (HHS) program in collaboration with the Creative Writing program, supports emerging writers whose work engages with themes such as physical and mental illness, healthcare, disability, and the body.

The fellowship, now a central part of the Reilly Center’s mission, aligns with the goals of HHS to provide students—many of them on pre-health tracks—with new perspectives on health and wellness through the humanities and social sciences.

In recent years the Reilly Center has expanded the scope of narrative medicine to include genres such as graphic medicine and we are very excited to continue to explore narrative medicine through the lens of poetry.

Holly G. Thompson is a poet, teacher-scholar, and Ph.D. student living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She earned a Master’s degree in English from Wake Forest University, where she studied poetry, rhetoric, and composition. Holly was the 2025 Erika Lindemann Fellow for UNC Chapel Hill’s Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies program, and she was recently awarded a grant to develop AI-related teaching innovations for composition classes.
 
Holly’s creative and scholarly work investigate the rhetorical tensions that produce, shape, and manage neurodivergent identities. Her most recent article, forthcoming from the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies in 2026, examines the social construction of autism in Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction MaddAddam trilogy. Holly has also spoken to a variety of student and faculty audiences about neurodivergent-affirming pedagogy and neurodivergent experiences in school. She is presently revising a poetry collection that draws from medical documentation to narrate a life lived on the autism spectrum.
 

When Holly is not working on her writing she will also engage with the Notre Dame community through workshops and public readings, providing unique opportunities for students to explore the intersections of healthcare, the humanities, and creative expression.