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 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.

Holman lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.[12]

Novels

• A Stolen Tongue (1997)
• The Dress Lodger (2000)
• The Mammoth Cheese (2003)
• Witches on the Road Tonight (2011) Shirley Jackson Award Best Novel.

Children's literature

• Sondok: Princess of the Moon And Stars (2002)

Selected short works

• "Sheri Holman: An Author's Pilgrimage" in Boldtype (February, 1998)
• "Letters from Exile: Styron's Havanas in Camelot" in The Barnes and Noble Review (June 9, 2008)
• "Rescue Mission" in The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships (2009)
• "The Starvation Experiment" in Exotic Gothic 5, Vol. I (2013)
• "The Divide" in My First Novel: Tales of Woe and Glory (2013)

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

• Official website
• Sheri Holman at IMDb
• Video of Rescue Mission (2009) performed by Sheri Holman at The Moth Manthropology: Stories About Men
• Video of Holman performing Between the Lines (2000) at The Moth Southern Stories series
• Audio of Holman performing in Something is Eternal: The Moth at Green-Wood Cemetery (2014)
• Reading by Holman from Witches on the Road Tonight (audio with transcript) at The Moonlit Road
• Summer 2003 interview at Barnes & Noble (bn.com at The Internet Archive)
• Article on Sheri Holman
• Sheri Holman at Library of Congress, with 5 library catalog records