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Holly’s Bio

Holly was born in Alberta, Canada. She was raised in Hinton and Athabasca along with three brothers and a sister. After years in sales and business management in Edmonton and Winnipeg, she decided to chase her dream of becoming an author.

In 2000, she was accepted to
Francis Ford Coppola’s Writers
Workshop in Belize based on the
strength of a short story she’d
written called The Tin Box.
That story grew into a novel
that has now been published
in six languages.

Holly’s second novel, The Penny Tree,
was published in Germany in 2006 and
will be available in North America
April 3, 2007.

Holly is married, has two young sons,
and is a stepmother to another son
and daughter. She resides in the
foothills of the Rocky Mountains in
Alberta. Holly is at work on her third
novel, The Silver Compass.