Hillary Carlip Bio

Hillary Carlip is an award-winning, best-selling author of five books, a noted visual artist, and digital innovator.

As a visual artist, Hillary’s work has been sold at prominent galleries in LA, NY, and Chicago, and shown alongside Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst in a five-city museum exhibit. She also has a piece in the permanent collection at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, KS.

Her current passion is collage animation/motion design, combining analog, often vintage and handcrafted ephemera with digital technology, creating authentic stories of future nostalgia. Her work is heavily featured in the new documentary short, The Letter League, which is a film festival favorite and an official selection of the Santa Fe Film Festival.

A web pioneer, Hillary co-founded VOXXY.com in 1999, one of the earliest and most acclaimed networks featuring interactive content with A-List talent including Jennifer Aniston. Hillary oversaw all creative aspects which included designing and producing their multiple websites, earning the company the Bandie Broadband Award for innovation in the category "Newest New Thing."

She also created and ran FRESH YARN, the popular literary website dedicated to personal essays, and edited hundreds of pieces from all-star contributors including Joey Soloway (Transparent), Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), and Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids are Alright, Olive Kittridge).

The Wall Street Journal has called Hillary and her work, "Humorous, touching and insightful;" Chicago Tribune: "Gloriously idiosyncratic." The New York Times declared, "Ms. Carlip's curriculum vitae reads like a CliffsNotes version of American Popular culture,” and the New York Daily News said, "Carlip is 10,000 miles ahead of every other writer: She's a visionary."

Her books include:

A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers (Virgin Books), which received raves including a starred review from Publishers Weekly who cited Hillary's "humor, grace and brilliantly creative eye," and called the book a "hilarious, delightful, unique achievement."

Hillary’s memoir, Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan (HarperCollins), was an American Bookseller's Association Book Sense Pick Best Seller, a Lambda Literary Award finalist in two categories (humor and memoir) and was selected by Borders as one of the Best Literary Memoirs of the Year.

Find Me I’m Yours, a revolutionary, multiplatform entertainment experience that starts with an eBook novel that Hillary wrote, and expands into an entire storyverse filled with interactive content including original videos, 33 unique custom websites designed by Hillary, all of which are integrated into the story, and countless ways for readers to share their own content, connect, and personally engage with the narrative. Hillary dubbed this new genre “Click Lit.” Buzzfeed called Find Me I’m Yours, “a groundbreaking entertainment universe,” and CNN lauded it as, “the book of the future.”

Hillary forged the way in bringing the voices of teenage girls into the mainstream with her first book Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out (Warner Books). She appeared on Oprah, where the whole episode was devoted to the book, and was honored by the New York Public Library when Girl Power was selected for its prestigious "Best Books for Teens" list.

Zine Scene (Girl Press), which Hillary designed herself and co-wrote with the renowned author Francesca Lia Block, won an American Library Association Award, and was included in a show at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York City.