Anna Holmes

Anna Holmes is an American writer and editor. In 2007, she founded the Gawker Media women-focused site Jezebel. Early life and education Holmes was born in California and studied journalism at New York University. Career Holmes was a staff writer for Glamour. In 2007, she founded Jezebel. Writing for Mother Jones, Tasneem Raja says Holmes developed "a site for women interested in both fashion and how the models were treated. She built it into a traffic behemoth, with 32 million monthly pageviews and beloved features like Photoshop of Horrors and Crap Email From a Dude." Rebecca Carroll described Holmes's Jezebel launch as drawing "immediate attention with its off-color humor (similar in tone to Gawker, but more so a refreshingly new tone altogether), feminine bluster and fearless, pointed criticism of mainstream women’s magazines, an industry in which Holmes worked for many years, for perpetuating unattainable ideals of beauty and an endless (heterosexual) preoccupation with men." Holmes served as editor-in-chief until she left the site in 2010.