Sheri Holman

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.^[1] 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^[2] 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^[3] and to the best fiction of 2011 lists of the Boston Globe^[4] and The Globe and Mail.^[5] She is at work on a new novel involving a pediatric health worker in Eldoret, Kenya.^[6]

Holman was a writer and co-executive producer for the 2022-23 Showtime drama miniseries George & Tammy, and writer and executive producer on Palm Royale on Apple TV+.

In 2020, Holman was writer/producer on Filthy Rich, as well as the Fox 21 Television Studios/National Geographic Channel series Barkskins, based on the Annie Proulx novel.^[7] She spent three seasons writing on Longmire for Warner Horizon Television, which premiered on Netflix in Fall, 2015.^[8] She served as a staff writer on Emerald City on NBC.^[9] The Crooked Road, her television adaptation of Witches on the Road Tonight, is in development by Universal Television. Holman teaches in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch^[10]

She is a founding member^[11] of the 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.^[12]

• Orange Prize for Fiction, shortlist (2005): The Mammoth Cheese^[13]
• Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal, Literary Fiction (2011): Witches on the Road Tonight^[14]
• Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novel (2011): Witches on the Road Tonight