Most Recent: April 22, 2015
Holly Prado was awarded First Prize in the Fin de Millennium competition, sponsored by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. Also, she was a winner in the "Sense of Site" project for 2002: poems by LA poets printed on postcards and distributed throughout the city. This project was sponsored by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and Writers at Work. In November, 2006, Holly was presented with a Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles for her achievements in writing, teaching and participation in the Los Angeles literary community for the past thirty-five years. Her most recent publications (2012) include poetry featured in the literary review Malpais Review and in Askew magazine; in Chiron Review (2014) and regularly on the poetry/art blog timestimes3.blogspot.com. Holly lives in East Hollywood with her husband, Harry Northup, a film actor and poet. They are both founding members of Cahuenga Press, a poets publishing cooperative which has been publishing books of poetry since 1989. (Please see cahuengapress.com)