Hillary Carlip

Hillary Carlip (born 20 October 1956) is an American author, screenwriter, performance artist, and singer.

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Career

Carlip's first book Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out was published in 1995. Her second book, Zine Scene, which she designed herself and co-wrote with Francesca Lia Block, won an American Library Association Award.[1] Carlip's memoir Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan, forms a chronology of her life experiences.[2]

Carlip is the creator, editor and host of the literary website "Fresh Yarn" which hosts works written by a diverse range of writers, performers and personalities.[3] She has also been an NPR commentator, having written and recorded pieces for All Things Considered.[4] With Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Danielle Trussoni, and Maria Dahvana Headley, she is a founding member of The Memoirists Collective, a group that seeks new talent in nonfiction.[5]

Early in her screenwriting career Carlip's first film script, SKIRTS, co-written with Miss Congeniality co-writer, Katie Ford, sold to Columbia Studios.[6] She has also done script rewrites for animated films for Disney including An Extremely Goofy Movie.

As a visual artist, Carlip has a web production and design company called Fly HC, whose clients include Jennifer Aniston.[4] From 1999 to 2001 she was Co-President, Founder, and Executive Creative Director of the teen web network VOXXY.[7]

Carlip is also the lead of the group "Angel and the Reruns" and has performed with The Flying Karamazov Brothers.[4]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^ "American Library Association website". http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/annotations/1999popularpaperbacks.cfm. Retrieved February 3, 2010. 
  2. ^ Karpel, Ari (March 16, 2008). "Mistress of Disguise". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20184103,00.html. Retrieved February 3, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Hillary Carlip—The Oddballs' Queen Bee". Windy City Times. July 19, 2007. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/ARTICLE.php?AID=12135. Retrieved February 3, 2010. 
  4. ^ a b c "One-Woman Odd Squad". Phoenix New Times. April 27, 2006. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2006-04-27/culture/one-woman-odd-squad/. Retrieved February 3, 2010. 
  5. ^ "Memoirists Make Friends on MySpace". Publishers Weekly. June 13, 2006. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6343297.html. Retrieved February 3, 2010. 
  6. ^ "Warner Bros. official website". http://movies.warnerbros.com/pub/archive/dld/congeniality/prodnotes.htm. Retrieved February 3, 2010. 
  7. ^ "Are Web sites for teenage girls a little too wild ...". CNN. February 4, 2000. http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/07/voxxy.wild.things.idg/index.html. Retrieved February 3, 2010. 

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