Brett Holloway is a pen name. He writes under a pseudonym to protect the privacy of the people who appear in his work.He writes across memoir, narrative nonfiction, fiction, children's books, and picture books. The range is intentional. He is interested in writing that earns its place regardless of genre - a memoir that tells the truth without softening it, a children's book that takes kids seriously instead of shielding them from complexity, fiction that doesn't borrow its darkness, nonfiction that keeps looking even when the subject gets uncomfortable.His debut, What the House Holds, is a memoir about parenting a child through severe mental illness - the psychiatric institutions, the child welfare systems, the specific exhaustion of loving someone through something you cannot fix. It is the first book published under Eshom Cabin Press.He is based in Oklahoma, where he founded and runs the press.