Personal life and education
Holder was born Nancy Lindsay Jones in Los Altos, California on August 29, 1953. Growing up in California and Japan, Nancy quit school at 16 to be a ballet dancer in Germany. Eventually returning to the U.S., she resumed her studies and graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Communications degree.
Holder is married to Wayne Holder, with whom she has a daughter, Belle Claire Christine Holder (born October 28, 1996).
Career
Holder is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in horror writing. She won Best Short Story in 1991 for "Lady Madonna", in 1993 for "I Hear the Mermaids Singing", and in 1994 for "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain". She won Best Novel in 1994 for Dead in the Water.
Other books by Nancy Holder (and Debbie Viguié) include the Wicked series, about a family feud between a coven of witches called the Cahors and a coven of warlocks called the Devereux.
Holder contributed to the design of Dungeon Master , developed and sold by her husband Wayne Holder's company FTL Games. [1] She has also begun collaborating with her daughter, Claire Holder, when published short stories.
Holder contributed the original story concept to the 2018 Firefly novel Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove.
She occasionally teaches courses in writing and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the University of California, San Diego.
In 2014, Holder stepped into the position of Vice President of the Horror Writers Association. [2]
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