Holly Gleason

Author, journalist and marketing consultant Holly Gleason’s work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, Musician, Variety, Oxford American, Playboy, Interview, SPIN, NPR Music and Miami Herald. In 2023, she was named LA Press Club’s Entertainment Journalist of the Year. A former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame/Case Western Reserve Fellow, she’s the creator of and contributor to the 2018 Belmont Book Award-winning Woman Walk The Line: How The Women of Country Music Changed Our Life. She recently co-authored Miranda Lambert’s New York Times best-seller Y’All Eat Yet: Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin Kitchen, and edited Prine on Prine: Interviews & Encounters. An in-demand speaker and interviewer, she's appeared at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Southern Festival of Books, Miami Book Fair, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and various talk shows. She's received the NSAI I Wish I Wrote That Song Award for "Better As A Memory" and taught Music Criticism at Middle Tennessee State University for over a decade.