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Nancy Holder (b. August 29, 1953) was born in Palo Alto, California, and has lived in Japan, Germany, South Carolina, Hawaii, and back to California. She studied ballet for many years, but her career was cut short by a number of injuries and the realization that the best she could hope for was a position in innumerable productions of Swan Lake as the 1,217th Swan on the left.

Holder was encouraged at a young age to become a writer, and in 1981 she sold her first novel, a young adult romance retitled (to her chagrin) Teach Me to Love. She sold five more romance novels before Charles L. Grant bought her first horror short story, “Blood Gothic”, for Shadows 8. Since then she has sold over two hundred short stories and essays and approximately sixty-five more novels. The latter include Dead in the Water, Making Love and Witch-Light (both with Melanie Tem), Pretty Little Devils, Cannibal Dwight’s Special Purpose, Spirited and The Wicked Saga (Witch, Curse, Legacy and Spellbound). She has written various novelizations for Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Highlander, Smallville, Angel and more novels, novellas, short stories, essays and show guides about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other writer in the galaxy. She also recently co-edited the anthology Outsiders: Stories on the Edge of the Fantastical with Nancy Kilpatrick.

Holder has received four Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers Association, and her work has appeared on recommended lists from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association and the New York Public Library. She teaches writing at University of California at San Diego through their Extension department, and also at the Maui Writers Retreat.