About
the Author

Hollis Beckett has always been fascinated by stories about human connection, quiet acts of courage, and the fragile things people carry through difficult worlds. And if a dragon appears every now and then, all the better.

When she's not writing fiction, Hollis occasionally muses on random shower thoughts about storytelling, craft, technology, and humanity's ongoing attempt to remain emotionally connected in a world increasingly shaped by technological systems.

Hollis has a deep love of craft, emotional honesty, and the idea that while tools may shape art, they cannot replace the human need to create meaningful things.

A Gen X technologist at heart, Hollis lives with her husband and family in Nowhere, Wisconsin and spends an unreasonable amount of time tending her ridiculously indulgent garden, painting fantasy miniatures, reading everything from fantasy adventures to Dickens and Doyle and daydreaming about running off to Scotland to live in a castle someday. We don't talk about the castle thing.

Hollis can usually be found wandering around Substack, occasionally shouting into the void on Bluesky, and periodically remembering to answer email like a responsible adult.

Currently deep in a debut novel, The Shape of Fallen Things, which has been described by no one yet but will hopefully one day be described as "the book I didn't know I needed." Hollis cares enormously about sentences — individually, in groups, in the strange way they lean on each other.

The work is dark. The person behind it finds most things delightful. These are not contradictions.

"I write toward connection. The darkness is just the weather."

Known weaknesses include: dragons, other people's dogs, and stories that make you feel less alone at 2am.