Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle is an American fantasy author who worked as one of several rotating co-authors on Mercedes Lackey's SERRAted Edge series during its original 1990s run, contributing to the urban-fantasy books that drop exiled elven nobles into the world of professional auto racing. The SERRAted Edge premise pairs elves drawn to modern combustion engines the way they were once drawn to swords and swift horses with a fast-paced racing backdrop, using SERRA — the fictional Southeastern Road Racing Association — as cover for quiet, ongoing work countering dark magic and hostile elven factions who have followed them into the human world. Lackey worked with a changing roster of co-authors across the SERRAted Edge books' original seven-title run between 1992 and 1999, with Lisle among the writers who helped establish the series' blend of contemporary car culture, elven politics, and urban fantasy. Beyond her SERRAted Edge contribution, Lisle built her own career writing fantasy novels across multiple series and later became well known in the writing community for publishing craft-focused instructional material and courses on fiction writing technique, developing a following among aspiring authors that in some respects has come to rival the visibility of her own published fantasy fiction.