Holly Race

Holly is a novelist and screenwriter. Her debut trilogy, the Midnight’s Twins series (Hot Key, 2020), reenvisions Arthurian legend within an urban fantasy setting. Her next trilogy, Six Wild Crowns (Orbit, 2025), is an historical fantasy retelling of the six wives of Henry VIII. 

Prior to becoming a writer, Holly spent ten years as a script editor in film and television. She has worked for companies such as Red Planet Pictures, the Imaginarium Studios, Working Title Films and Aardman Animations and on series such as popular cosy crime drama Death in Paradise. She is currently a Royal Literary Fund fellow, attached to the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University.

Holly lives in Cambridge with her husband and daughter. When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found renovating their crumbling Regency era townhouse.