Jane Holland

For the character of Home and Away, see Jane Holland (Home and Away).
Jane Holland
Born Jane Holland
November 1966 (age 49)
Ilford, Essex, England
Pen name Jane Holland, Victoria Lamb, Elizabeth Moss, Beth Good
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Period 1989-present
Relatives Sheila Holland (mother),
Richard Holland (father),
Sarah Holland (sister)

Jane Holland (born November 1966 in Ilford, Essex, England) is an English poet and novelist. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for her poetry in 1996.[1] Her sister is the novelist, actress and singer Sarah Holland. She also writes fiction under the pseudonyms Victoria Lamb, Elizabeth Moss and Beth Good. Her novel Witchstruck, written as Victoria Lamb, won the Romantic Novelists Association Young Adult Romantic Novel of the Year Award for 2013.[2]

Biography

Jane Holland was born on November 1966 at Ilford, Essex, England, the daughter of the romantic novelist Sheila Ann Mary Coates Holland (Charlotte Lamb) and classical biographer and ex-Times journalist Richard Holland. She moved with her parents to the Isle of Man in 1977, where she lived for 23 years. She has four siblings: the novelist, actress and singer Sarah Holland, Charlotte, Michael and David.

Holland edited the small poetry magazine Blade from 1995 to 1999, and published her first full-length collection of poetry in 1997, The Brief History of a Disreputable Woman, with Bloodaxe Books, followed in 1999 by a first novel, Kissing the Pink, with Sceptre. She was also one of five young Bloodaxe poets who performed on the New Blood UK Tour of 1997, the others being Roddy Lumsden, Julia Copus, Tracey Herd and Eleanor Brown.

Holland was the Warwick Poet Laureate for 2008. She founded the Poets On Fire website and forum, and was a prominent member of the Birmingham-based performance poetry and spoken-word group New October Poets in 2006, when she was named one of the top poetry performers in the West Midlands under the "Six of the Best" scheme. She edited the online arts magazine Horizon Review (Salt Publishing) from 2008 to 2010 and was a commissioning editor at Embrace Books from 2010 to 2011.

Holland's first collection was in a mainstream British tradition, generally as a "nature" poet rather than an urban stylist, citing Ted Hughes as a major early influence. Recent work includes a long narrative poem sequence written in the voice of Boudicca and a translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Wanderer".

Boudicca & Co. was published by Salt Publishing in 2006. Camper Van Blues[3] was published by Salt in 2008. Two poetry pamphlets were also published in 2008: The Lament of the Wanderer [Heaventree Press], a new translation of the eponymous Anglo-Saxon poem, and On Warwick (Nine Arches Press), a collection of poems written during her year as Warwick Poet Laureate, including the long experimental poem On Warwick Castle.

Works

Poetry

As Jane Holland
  • The Brief History of a Disreputable Woman (1997)
  • Boudicca & Co. (2006)
  • Camper Van Blues (2008)
  • The Lament of the Wanderer (2008)
  • On Warwick (2008)
  • Flash Bang: New & Selected Poems (2014)

Fiction

As Jane Holland

As Victoria Lamb

  • The Queen's Secret (2012)
  • Witchstruck (2012)[5][6][7]
  • His Dark Lady (2013)
  • Witchfall (2013)
  • Her Last Assassin (2014)
  • Witchrise (2014)[8]

As Elizabeth Moss

  • The Earl and His Tiger (2011)
  • Wolf Bride (2013)
  • Rebel Bride (2014)
  • Rose Bride (2014)

As Beth Good

  • The Oddest Little Chocolate Shop (2014)

References

  1. ↑ "Eric Gregory Past Winners | Society of Authors - Protecting the rights and furthering the interests of authors". www.societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  2. ↑ "RoNA Category Award Winners 2013 | News | The Romantic Novelists' Association". www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  3. ↑ Camper Van Blues
  4. ↑ "Spooky Bodmin Moor woods inspired best selling novel". Cornish Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Brown, Chris (December 2012). "Grave Mercy/Witchstruck/A Witch in Love (review)". School Librarian 60 (4): 242. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  6. ↑ Leon, Karen; Glantz, Shelley (March 2014). "Witchstruck (review)". Library Media Connection 32 (5): 79. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Witchstruck (review)". Booklist. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Witchrise (review)". Booklist. Retrieved 1 May 2016.

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