Sheri Holman

Biography

Holman was born in Hanover County, Virginia. Following graduation from The College of William & Mary in 1988 with a degree in theatre, she moved to New York. After transitioning from acting to various positions in the publishing industry, including several years as a temp at Penguin Books, Holman became the assistant to literary agent Molly Friedrich. It was during this time that she began writing her first novel, A Stolen Tongue, a mystery set along the route of a fifteenth-century religious pilgrimage. The debut novel was published by Grove/Atlantic in 1997 and subsequently translated into thirteen languages. This was followed by the bestselling The Dress Lodger, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2000, and a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

After publishing a young adult title in 2002, Holman returned with The Mammoth Cheese in 2003, which was a finalist for the UK Orange Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel is Witches on the Road Tonight, named a New York Times Editors' Choice and to the best fiction of 2011 lists of the Boston Globe and the Toronto Globe and Mail. She is at work on a new novel involving a pediatric health worker in Eldoret, Kenya.

Holman is currently writing on Longmire for Warner Horizon Television, which premiered on Netflix in Fall, 2015. She served as a staff writer on Emerald City on NBC. The Crooked Road, her television adaptation of Witches on the Road Tonight, is in development by Universal Television.

She is a founding member of storytelling collective The Moth and serves on its curatorial board. Her stories have been featured on The Moth Podcast and the Peabody Award-winning Moth Radio Hour. Holman lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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