Nancy Holder is a founding member of the Horror Writers Association and a former trustee. She received five Bram Stoker Awards for horror fiction, and was also nominated as an editor. She is the New York Times best-selling author of the Wicked, Crusade, and Wolf Springs Chronicles dark fantasy series.

She authored tie-in projects for "universes" including Clive Barker's Hellraiser, Teen Wolf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Zorro, and Kolchak the Night Stalker. She has new pieces in Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes; V Wars; and Zombie Apocalypse: Fightback!. She also writes and edits comic books and pulp fiction for Moonstone. Holder is one of three partners in GothicScapes™, a new urban fantasy publisher. She is a faculty member at the University of Southern Maine in the Stonecoast M.F.A. in Creative Writing program, and she has lectured extensively on the horror genre.