
Mary Holden Thompson
I write both fiction and non-fiction, with personal, domestic themes. I write about relationships, whether between men and women, family members, or strangers.
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In 2019, I completed. the Stanford University Online Novel Writing program and recently finished my first novel, Exposed.
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My life has taken various paths, from working as a photographer for an ex-pat magazine in Paris (Paris Passion), to founding the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center in Asheville, NC.
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Fifteen years ago, I began taking writing workshops from my home in Paris. Concurrently, I had a monthly blurb entitled Local Flavor for an anglophone newsletter about Paris.
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Long ago, leading up to the start of my so-called writing "career" I lived in Zurich for a year and Rome for three years where I learned Italian. On my return to the States, and after finishing college, I found a job in Manhattan as a receptionist at a Sicilian bank on Park Avenue (Banco di Sicilia. see my essay about this). I've also worked as a waitress, a translator, an apartment manager, a wig model, and an exercise instructor (besides leading classes. I had to wrap women in Saran Wrap and paint on fake nails—something I did NOT excel at, ask my mother). These are just a few of the experiences that make up the person I am today.
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Last but not least, I raised four incredible children with two different husbands (they were incredible too). Now that my children are grown and spread out from Egypt to Paris to Las Vegas, I currently divide my time between Paris and Asheville, North Carolina, always accompanied by my three dogs.
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