spike gillespie

Spike Gillespie is an award-winning author and social media queen. Austin Chronicle Readers voted her Best Nonfiction Writer in Austin, TX in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. She has written for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Playboy, GQ, Real Simple, Texas Monthly, the Dallas Morning News and many other publications. Spike teaches meditation and produced a course on Grief and Death for the app Insight Timer. She lives on a ranch near Austin where she rescues all sorts of animals except men. No more man rescuing. She also performs weddings and presides over funerals at her own Tiny Chapel and all over the Texas Hill Country.