About Monica Holloway

Monica Holloway is the author of DRIVING WITH DEAD PEOPLE, a memoir detailing her bizarre, often funny and ultimately terrifying life growing up in a small Midwestern town.  The book won the New York Public Library Book Award for Teens and is included in the library’s new anthology.  It was chosen as one of the top twenty-five recommendations for Book Groups by Kirkus. 

DRIVING WITH DEAD PEOPLE is out in paperback and was recently optioned for a movie.

Monica’s work appears in two anthologies, MOMMY WARS and THE BIGGER THE BETTER.  Recently, she began reviewing books for the Washington Post.

Her second memoir, COWBOY AND WILLS, published by Simon & Schuster, is due in bookstores in 2009.

She thanks her readers for “coming along for the ride”, all the laughs along the way and for their incredible support. Most importantly, she appreciates their candid and heart wrenching stories, which she finds the most confirming of all. The conversation of child abuse is on the table, and you, the reader, put it there. Tell your stories! We’ll be stronger together!

Monica is proud to announce that “Monica Holloway” is no longer a “pen name,” but her “real” and “legal” moniker.  She correlates letting go of her “given” or “family” name as the equivalent of taking off a large cement hat.

She is married to Emmy Award winning writer and co-executive producer of THE SIMPSONS, Michael Price, and together they have one glorious son.  They live in Los Angeles with a ridiculous number of animals and a very small yard.