Holly Gleason

Author, Critic, Adjunct Professor

WOMAN, WALK THE LINE; HITS/HITS DailyDouble; Middle Tennessee State University

Winner of 2018’s Belmont Book Award for WOMAN, WALK THE LINE and 2019 ‘s Country Music Association Media Achievement Award, Holly Gleason is Nashville Editor of HITS and a frequent cover writer for POLLSTAR. Her 2019 Contributor profile of Dolly Parton was American nominated Best Culture Reporting at the International Network of Street Papers Awards. An adjunct at MTSU, she teaches Music Criticism and has written for Rolling Stone, LA Times and The Miami Herald.