Grace Holliday is a freelance journalist and senior lecturer.
As a journalist, Grace specialises in social and political issues and explorations of identity, particularly gender, race, relationships and health. She also covers news and current affairs, finance and money and is an adept interviewer and ghostwriter. While she has a passion for longform features and opinion, she has ample experience in writing roundups, profiles and interviews.
Grace’s writing can be found in a wide range of newspapers, including the Guardian, the Independent, the Huffington Post, and the Telegraph; magazines, including Cosmo, Glamour, Grazia and Psychologies, and digital publications, including Buzzfeed, Gal-dem, Dazed and Prospect.
She writes the weekly Smart Shot column for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine, which has run in print and online every weekend since 2021.
Her essay ‘The Uncool Girl’s Manifesto’ was published by Walker Books in 2019’s ‘I Will Not Be Erased’, the first book from Gal-dem.
Alongside her journalism, Grace is also a senior lecturer for the BA (Hons) Creative Writing course at Leeds Arts University, and a part-time journalism lecturer at York St John University, joining the Journalism & Media Production department in September 2020. She has previously worked as a weekly lecturer at Leeds College, lecturing on Writing For Magazines, TV Newsroom and My Culture modules for first-year journalism students, spent a term working with the journalism department at Sheffield College, and has led journalism workshops at The University of Leeds and The University of Sheffield.
Grace is also a travel writer, and in the last three years has covered stories in Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, India, Seville, Mallorca, Venice and various parts of the UK. Publications include Norwegian Airlines inflight magazine, Qatar Airlines inflight magazine, Grazia, Psychologies, and the Telegraph.
Grace is also a volunteer mentor to several young, female journalists, and has worked as a volunteer English tutor for underserved teenagers in Chapeltown, Leeds from 2015 until the Covid pandemic closed its doors in 2020.
She holds a Journalism MA and NCTJ Gold Standard Diploma from The University of Sheffield, and a 1st Class Creative Writing MA from Royal Holloway, University of London, alongside a study abroad year at Washington College, Maryland, USA.
Grace is a proud Northerner of biracial heritage and a working-class background. She is based in West Yorkshire and lives with her husband, daughter and cat.