Photo by Phil Cantor, Montclair, NJ

About Nancy Herkness

“I was trained as a poet, but from the day my grandmother gave me my first Georgette Heyer novel I wanted to write romance.”  Nancy Herkness realized that long-held ambition with her award-winning debut novel A Bridge to Love.

Born and raised in the mountains of West Virginia, Nancy graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English.  In addition to her academic work in English literature, she was accepted into Princeton’s Creative Writing Program, and her senior thesis was a volume of original poetry.

Working first in retailing as a buyer at Lord and Taylor and then in data processing, Nancy finally took the plunge: she quit her job and wrote a romance novel.  She put her literary career on hold when her first child was born.  Once her youngest was settled in first grade, Nancy returned to the word processor to write A Bridge to Love.

Chosen as one of three “Best Up and Coming Authors” for 2003 in Affaire de Coeur’s Readers’ Poll, Nancy is the winner of a Golden Leaf, the Aspen Gold, and the Write Touch Reader’s awards for excellence in published romance.  A member of Romance Writers of America, New Jersey Romance Writers, and Novelists, Inc., she also writes book reviews, press releases and newsletters.

Having been taught to knit by her mother, Nancy found several other writers who enjoy the art of needlecraft and blogs with them at “Romancing the Yarn.”  She enjoys family vacations to exotic locales (like Niagara Falls) and shares those with readers on “From the Garret,” her own personal blog.  She loves animals, having grown up with five dogs, three cats, a pony, and various wild creatures the cats brought home.  She has a phobia about driving across bridges and flying.    

In college Nancy developed an affinity for New Jersey where she now lives with her husband and two teenagers.