Sheri Holman | |
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 Holman at Shirley Jackson Award, April 2012 | |
| Born | June 1, 1966 Hanover County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | College of William & Mary |
| Genre | Fiction, Novel, Television |
| Notable works | Witches on the Road Tonight (novel, 2011), The Dress Lodger (novel, 2000) |
Sheri Holman (born June 1, 1966) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
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 coming from 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.
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