Holly Morse attended Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She received her M.F.A. in painting and post-studio from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work was represented by Helen Schlein Gallery in Boston, Koplin Gallery in Los Angeles, and Shea & Becker Gallery in New York. Among her other exhibitions in New York were Playing House, co-curated with Sharon Garbe for Natalie Karg Gallery, the audio and sculptural installation Love’s Mansion for the White Room at White Columns, and Post Boys & Girls, curated by Ken Aptekar for Artists Space, in which she patinaed, in dirt, a 20’ wall built for the installation of her piece Dirty Picture. Most recently, she was included in Beauty is a Blast at Art Cake in Brooklyn, N.Y., honoring artist and critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. In 1995, Holly designed a line of toys based on children's drawings carried by art museums across the country, including the Whitney Museum and SFMOMA as well as by Barney's N.Y., Hong Kong Seibu, and Paul Smith London and Paris. Her collection of short stories, Spangled Ruin, came out in 2017. She is currently at work on another collection of stories, Everything Must Go Up in Flames.