Holiday Reinhorn, Co-Founder

Author Holiday Reinhorn visited Haiti for the first time in 2009 with the Mona Foundation and returned to facilitate a UN Foundation-funded program, Girls United, after the earthquake of 2010. She has been committed to serving grassroots educational initiatives in the most remote areas of Haiti ever since.

Holiday is the author of BIG CATS: Stories from Free Press. Her fiction has been featured in numerous literary magazines and has been anthologized in THIS IS NOT CHICK LIT, THE WORST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE, and NAMING THE WORLD. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship, The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and a PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award, among others. Holiday has taught creative writing at The University of Wisconsin at Madison, The University of Iowa and The UCLA Writers’ Extension Program.