Hollye Dexter

Hollye Dexter is author of the memoir Fire Season (She Writes Press, 2015) and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press)-- praised by bestselling author Gloria Feldt (former CEO of Planned Parenthood) as "...a brilliant book that just might change your life." Her essays and articles about women's issues, activism and politics have been published in anthologies as well as in Maria Shriver's Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire and more. In 2001 she founded an award-winning nonprofit bringing arts programs to youth in foster care. She currently teaches writing workshops and works as an activist for gun violence prevention in L.A., where she lives with her husband and a houseful of kids and pets. www.hollyedexter.blogspot.com