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BIO
Holiday Dmitri is a Taiwanese Canadian American writer with a background in journalism and international affairs. She has worked in the media and non-profit sectors in Chicago, DC, New York City, Taipei (Taiwan), and Pristina (Kosovo). A graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, the University of Chicago, the New School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson, her writing has appeared in The Taipei Times, The Chicago Criterion, Rolling Stone, Radar, and Reason Magazine, among other places. She is an alum of the 2020 Tin House Winter Novels Workshop and inaugural recipient of Essere Residency's Special Fellowship for Emerging Voices. Holiday has also been employed as an obituary writer, cigarette girl, hair model, radio disc jockey, and international flight attendant based out of Chicago’s O'Hare International Airport. Currently, she makes her home in Brooklyn, where she is at work on her debut novel that explores identity and isolation in our rapidly changing world.