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Holly Brians Ragusa

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CityBeat article April 2023 names MET THE END the BEST TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR THAT CUTS AWAY SENSATIONALI
True-Crime Survival Memoir Met the End - Debut Book

MET THE END is a 2023 Best In Cincinnati

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Second Wednesdays of Month 2025

Walnut Street Poetry Society Co-Chair with Norman Finkelstein at The Mercantile Library

11:45am EST

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1:15pm

414 Walnut St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

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Second Wednesdays of Month 2025

Walnut Street Poetry Society Co-Chair with Norman Finkelstein at The Mercantile Library

Join us for deep dives into poets of Rebirth this year. Every Second Wednesday in the Poetry Room at The Mercantile Library (sans summer mon...

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11:45am EST

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1:15pm

414 Walnut St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

5/26/2025

In conversation with Susanna Kwan

4pm EST

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5:30pm

2692 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45208

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5/26/2025

In conversation with Susanna Kwan

Kwan's new captivating fiction-Awake in the Floating City  at Joseph Beth Cincinnati 

4pm EST

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5:30pm

2692 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45208

5/20/2025

Sunset Salons- Authors- Clifton Cultural Arts Center

6pm EST

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7:30pm

3412 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220

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5/20/2025

Sunset Salons- Authors- Clifton Cultural Arts Center

Author Conversation - J.M. Clark, Victor Velez & HBR - what inspires you? https://cliftonculturalarts.org/ccac-events/sunset-salons-authors/

6pm EST

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7:30pm

3412 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220

6/14/2025

Poetry at Hayner: A Mosaic of Voices event

6:30pm

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9pm EST

Troy-Hayner Cultural Center 301 West Main Street Troy, Ohio 45373

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6/14/2025

Poetry at Hayner: A Mosaic of Voices event

Poetry at Hayer: A Mosaic of Voices event on June 14, 2025. This event at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Arts Center is free and open to the publi...

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6:30pm

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9pm EST

Troy-Hayner Cultural Center 301 West Main Street Troy, Ohio 45373

5/16/2025

Power to Pursue Panel Moderator- Grief as Teacher

9:45am EST

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10:30pm

Music Hall Cincinnati, OH 45202

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5/16/2025

Power to Pursue Panel Moderator- Grief as Teacher

In conversation with Panelists Krista Powers, Dr. Arielle Jordan & Rebeca Arbona during Power to Pursue Spring Summit - How we meet with gri...

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9:45am EST

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10:30pm

Music Hall Cincinnati, OH 45202

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Debut Book

Met the End

Available in Print  &  on Audible

Certainty Lacks Imagination - Poetry Collection

Tilt a World

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Invest your time in living. Dying to Know Myself in Time

Dying to Know Myself in time

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Debut Poetry Collection

Inverse; Informed Thoughts By An Unfit Poet

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About Me

HBR

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Writer, poet, speaker, student of life, Cincinnati native, receptive traveler; I am a global citizen serving nonprofits in the arts, history & education. 

I seek to build bridges within my community, 

I love calling Over-the-Rhine, home.  




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My overactive imagination relied on books and journaling. Vulnerability writes the truest words.

Writing reveals where we lay dormant creatively.  

I continue to write...One word in front of the other.

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This life isn't meant to be walked alone.
Connect, find support, read, relate, 

become who you want to be. 

Working for a more dignified, just, less combative world, hand in hand with my fellow travelers.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to acknowledge that I live and work on land that for more than 15,000 years was preserved in partnership with its natural condition by the indigenous Osage, Myaamia, Shwandasse Tula (Shawanwaki/Shawnee) and Kaskaskia tribes as well as the Hopewell & Adena Culture peoples. This Ohio Valley region, before colonization,  was kept pristine by original inhabitants & have descendants today striving to protect and to reclaim it. 


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