Hi, I’m Holly. I’m a freelance journalist and a regular contributor to The New York Times, where I write about wellness and relationships. My work has also appeared in TIME, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Oprah Daily.
BEFORE THAT:
I spent a long time helping tech companies use words and language to make the user experience more enjoyable, including five years at Instagram, where I built and ran the writing team, and helped to establish and maintain the app’s voice. I did similar work as a writer at Facebook and for freelance clients like Instacart.
Prior to that, I was a writer at Travelocity, where one of my most surreal job duties was acting as the official voice of the Roaming Gnome. On the upside, I got to fly all over the world, writing funny tweets in disguise as someone else. On the downside, I had to walk through airports carrying a large ceramic gnome.
I’m especially interested in magnifying stories about women’s health, particularly young women and cancer. I wrote about my experience going through breast cancer treatment here, here, and here. I talked about it on the Forever 35 podcast here and on NPR here.
I’m originally from the UK and now live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’m working on my first novel.
