Hollis Gillespie
Instructor
About Hollis
Hollis Gillespie is an award-winning humor and travel columnist, and her column appears every month on Atlanta magazine's back page. She is also a best-selling author, NPR commentator, professional speaker, and guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Her work has been optioned by Sony Pictures and Paramount, and she has collaborated with Hollywood hard hitters like Mitch Hurwitz, the creator of Arrested Development, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, producers of Two and a Half Men, and Amy Palladino, creator of Gilmore Girls. (George Clooney has also kissed her twice. Twice!) Hollis herself has been featured on scores of TV shows and runs Shocking Real Life, the largest writing school in Atlanta, which offers workshops on book writing, blogging, and social media. Kirkus Reviews lauded Gillespie's "impeccable comic timing" for her first novel, Unaccompanied Minor Her next novel, We Will Be Crashing Shortly, is due out in 2014.