She published her first collection of short stories, Barbara the Slut and Other People in 2015. Holmes was raised in the Hudson Valley in New York. She attended Wellesley College as an undergraduate, and received her MFA from Hunter College. Her work has appeared in Granta. Holmes cites Tracy Kidder, Barbara Demick, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc as influences. _She_ began work on the collection in 2009. <sep>, Pronoun: She <sep>, A: Holmes <sep>, B: Barbara Demick