Anna Holmes is an American writer and editor. In 2007, she founded the

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women-focused site

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Early life and education

Holmes was born in

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and studied journalism at

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Career

In 2007, she founded

Jezebel Jezebel ()"Jezebel"
(US) and

. Writing for ''Mother Jones'', Tasneem Raja says Holmes developed "a site for women interested in both

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and how the

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were treated. She built it into a traffic behemoth, with 32 million monthly pageviews and beloved features like

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of Horrors and Crap Email From a Dude." Rebecca Carroll described Holmes's Jezebel launch as drawing "immediate attention with its off-color humor (similar in tone to Gawker, but more so a refreshingly new tone altogether), feminine bluster and fearless, pointed criticism of mainstream women’s magazines, an industry in which Holmes worked for many years, for perpetuating unattainable ideals of beauty and an endless (heterosexual) preoccupation with men." Holmes served as editor-in-chief until she left the site in 2010. She has been a columnist for the '' New York Times Sunday Book Review'' and has previously served as editorial director at Fusion. She joined Fusion as editor of digital voices and storytelling in 2014, part of a "Web talent grab for a fledgling TV channel: rst

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, now a much-admired writer and editor." Her work has appeared in ''

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'' and ''

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''. In April 2016, Holmes joined

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as senior vice-president of editorial to develop a new media property, Topic, focused on visual storytelling. In 2018, Topic won two prestigious National Magazine Awards, making Holmes the third Black editor-in-chief to ever receive the honor. Holmes was a staff writer for '' Glamour''. She currently writes the "Work Friend" column for the ''New York Times''. When she took over the column, Holmes noted that she had recently written an advice column for

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called "Sad Desk Salad".

Works

* ''Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair'', Random House Publishing Group, 2003, * ''The Book of Jezebel: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things'', Grand Central Publishing, 2013,

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Holmes, Anna American editors New York University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American bloggers Writers from California Writers from Queens, New York American women bloggers 21st-century American women