Holly Regan

Image courtesy of Kelly Daring

Ferdinand / Holly Regan is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher who is captivated by liminal space. Through prose, verse, theater, ethnography, gonzo journalism, visual art, spiritual practice, psychedelia, and sensory experience, their work explores the ways that we connect, transcend, and heal through altered states. As a queer and trans person, they highlight underrepresented communities.

“My art, writing, and research explores the ways that we connect, transcend, and heal through altered states. Using mediums that include words, images, ethnography, and sensory experience, my work focuses on underrepresented communities.”

Their journalism has appeared in a range of noteworthy publications in the US and UK, including The New York Times, VICE, Whetstone Magazine, The Wellcome Collection, SPIN Magazine, DoubleBlind, Psychedelics Today, Seattle Met, Filter Magazine, SOURCED Journeys, and the James Beard Award-winning Good Beer Hunting. They were awarded the Curve Fellowship for Emerging Journalists from the NLGJA—National Association of LGBTQ Journalists in 2022, and in 2021, were recognized by the North American Guild of Beer Writers for Best Travel Writing and the Diversity in Beer Writing Grant.

Originally from Seattle, Washington in the United States, they have lived for four years as a nomad, currently based in the UK. Learn more about them via their website and follow them on instagram.