Holly Hogan’s newest book, Message in a Bottle, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2023 and won the 2023 BMO Winterset Award.
Holly Hogan is a writer and wildlife biologist with a focus on seabirds. During her more than thirty years as a scientist, she has spent about a thousand days at sea conducting avian and marine mammal surveys and providing educational programming with expedition teams. Her work has taken her to the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans, and every latitude in between. She has been interviewed for CBC Radio, appears in a National Film Board series called Ocean School and provided expertise on seabirds and the impact of marine plastic for the award-winning documentary Hell or Clean Water (2021). Holly is a mother of three and lives in St. John’s, NL, with her husband, Michael—and an assortment of cats and dogs, depending on the day.
