Originally from Detroit, William Holden now lives in Dallas Texas with his partner of twenty-one years. He has a Master's in Library and Information Science from Florida State University. Over the past decade he has devoted his time to collecting and preserving GLBT history and is a volunteer archivist at Boston's History Project.William's writing spans more than fifteen years, accumulating more than seventy published short stories in the genres of erotica, romance, fantasy, and horror. He is an award-winning author of such titles as, A Twist of Grimm by Lethe Press (Lambda Literary Award Finalist), and by Bold Strokes Books, Words to Die By (2nd place Rainbow Book Awards for best horror and finalist for the Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award for Best Horror).