Hollye Dexter is co-editor of Dancing At the Shame
Prom (Seal Press), and
recently completed a second memoir, Like Wind To Wildfire. Her essays have been published in
anthologies and magazines, and her blogs at MariaShriver.com, iPinion Syndicate, Op Ed News, BlogHer and others. She is also a singer/songwriter
with four albums out. As President of the Music Heals Foundation, she worked
with Denise Brown (sister of Nicole Brown Simpson) on a campaign to raise
domestic violence awareness, and with California State University Northridge,
bringing music therapy programs to autistic children. In 2003, she founded the
award-winning nonprofit Art and Soul, running arts workshops for teenagers in the foster care
system. Currently she teaches writing workshops for teens and adults, helping them
find their authentic voices. Hollye lives in Southern California with her
husband and three children, where she hikes, plays music, and works with MomsDemand Action for common sense gun regulation. www.hollyedexter.blogspot.com
