Rochelle Holt

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Rochelle Lynn Holt (born 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet and playwright.

Holt began writing poetry at age 13. Holt graduated with a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1967 and received her MFA from the Writer's Workshop of the University of Iowa in 1970. She pursued a doctoral program at Columbia Pacific University in California, earning a PhD in English and Psychology in 1980. Her dissertation, Panes: Fiction as Therapy [1] was published by Columbia Pacific University Press [2] and distributed by Rose Shell Press [3].

Holt's fiction includes Mirage and The Weight of Rain. She has also published numerous volumes of poetry and drama, among them, Whispering Secrets, Kaleidoscope of Dance, Eidolons and the musical fantasy, Walking into the Dawn. In the 1970s she co-owned Ragnarok Press in Iowa, Mississippi and Alabama. Between 1990 and 2000 she operated Rose Shell Press. Holt was a protege of the writer Anaïs Nin. Her multiple talents as a writer, painter, sculptor and dancer inspired Nin and she called her "the Queen of Creativity".

Holt's collected papers are in the special collections of the library of the University of Iowa [4].

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