| Sheri Holman | |
| Birth Date: | 1 June 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Hanover County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Novelist, screenwriter |
| Alma Mater: | College of William & Mary |
| Genre: | Fiction, Novel, Television |
| Notableworks: | 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 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]