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 .
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.