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About Holly Reich Holly describes her life as a series of happy, sad, ridiculous, sublime and magically serendipitous experiences.

In her teens she spent summers living in Champery, Switzerland and Kitzbuhel, Austria with her parent's teen travel camp, Tyrol Programs Abroad.

After two years at Marietta College in Ohio, Holly took some time off to experience real life. A stint as a cocktail waitress at the Cowboy Bar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, graveyard shifts as a Lake Tahoe casino change girl and living in a tree house in Oracle, Arizona, reinforced her love of travel.

And a love of the arts. After finishing her Fine Arts degree at the Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University, Holly moved to Hawaii to tour with Honolulu Theater of Youth as an actress. Several years of theater and dance performances later, a move to New York City found her launching a new episode as a personal fitness trainer and fitness columnist.

Over the past two decades, Holly's writing career has evolved to encompass travel, health, kids and cars. Her work has been featured in publications that include Self, Glamour, Parents, Family Travel Times, The Knot, Avenue, The Washington Post, AutoExec, Elite Traveler, Yachts International, Diversion, First, New Woman, Avenue, Escapades and The New York Times Syndicate. Her health and fitness column ran for three years in the New York Daily News and she won the Gold and Silver Award from Parenting Publications of America for her column CityLife which ran for three years in the Bergen Record Parents Paper. Her signature Holly Would Drive and Front Seat Drivers have appeared in a variety of publications.

Holly wrote the automotive page, "Driving Forces" for the New York Daily News for three years and has been contributing to their car section for even longer. She also contributes to edmunds.com, Motor Matters, Portico, Gotham, kbb.com, uptownlife.net and about.com. Holly is also a regular contributor to autolab and CJAD radio.

Appearances on national TV shows including Lifetime, Fox News and Fox 5 led to her 2004 coverage of the NY International Auto Show for Fox News' "BIG STORY". Holly also reported on the 2005 NY International Auto Show for CAR TV and the Speed Channel.

Active in her community, Holly chaired a committee that raised over $60,000 for PS199, a NYC public elementary school. She has also raised over $10,000 towards Breast Cancer awareness by participating in Avon's Walk For the Cure and helped implement an internship program at Churchill School in Manhattan.

Nowadays, when she's not home in New York City with her husband, two teens and two toy poodles, Holly is on the road. She travels the world on adventures that include; test driving Maserati's in Modena, Italy, cruising in the Western Caribbean, visiting spas and driving Land Rovers in Argentina or hiking through Michelin's rubber forests in Brazil.