Holly Morris

She directed and produced (with Anne Bogart) the 2015 documentary "The Babushkas of Chernobyl", about the women of the Exclusion Zone, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2015.

In June 2013 she delivered a TED talk on the subject at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh, Scotland.

She is featured in the 2013 documentary release Gringo Trails.

In 2010, she founded PowderKeg Writers' Residency in Brooklyn, New York, New York. Also in 2010, her article "A Country of Women" was published. It chronicles a community of "self settlers" who live inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

She is the executive producer, writer/director and host of the eight-part PBS documentary series Adventure Divas, as well as author of Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine (Random House, 2005, 2006), which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice.

She was an editorial director of the publishing company Seal Press (which was acquired by Avalon in 2003 and then Perseus in 2007). As an editorial director, she acquired and edited fiction and non-fiction on diverse topics including third wave feminism, health, international politics, and travel.

Holly Morris (born September 30, 1965) is an American author, documentary director/producer and television presenter. Her articles have been published in The New York Times Book Review, More, O, Slate, The Daily Telegraph, The Week and other national publications.