She and Belle are active in Girl Scouts and dog obedience training. She lives in San Diego, California, with her daughter Belle, their two Corgis, Panda and Tater and their cats, David and Kittnen Snow. She has previously taught at UCSD and has served on the Clarion Board of Directors.

She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program, offered through the University of Southern Maine. Her anthology, Outsiders, co-edited with Nancy Kilpatrick, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2005. She has sold approximately two hundred short stories and essays on writing and popular culture. She has sold many novels and book projects set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Saving Grace, Hellboy, and Smallville universes. They have continued their collaboration with the Crusade series, also for Simon and Schuster, and the Wolf Springs Chronicles for Delacorte (2011.) She is also the author of the young adult horror series Possessions for Razorbill. She and Debbie Viguié co-authored the New York Times bestselling series Wicked for Simon and Schuster. A four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, she has also received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times. Nancy’s work has appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, LA Times,, LOCUS, and other bestseller lists. Soon after, she began to write her first sale was a young adult romance novel titled Teach Me to Love. When she was sixteen, she dropped out of high school to become a ballet dancer in Cologne, Germany, and later relocated to Frankfurt Am Main.Įventually she returned to California and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego with a degree in Communications. Her father, who taught at Stanford, joined the navy and the family traveled throughout California and lived in Japan for three years. Nancy was born in Los Altos, California, and her family settled for a time in Walnut Creek. The last book her her Possession series is set to release in March 2011.

Nancy Holder, New York Times Bestselling author of the WICKED Series, has just published CRUSADE - the first book in a new vampire series cowritten with Debbie Viguie.

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