JACK WANG is the author of the story collection WE TWO ALONE (House of Anansi Press, 2020; HarperVia, 2021), shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers’ Union of Canada for best debut collection in English. His fiction has appeared in Brick, PRISM international, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, and Joyland and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Journey Prize. In 2014–15, he held the David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and in 2020, he was awarded a residency at Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver. He holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD from Florida State University, and he is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College. Originally from Vancouver, he lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife, novelist Angelina Mirabella, and their two daughters.

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Holman's foray into the world of children's books began with his twin brother Jack. They grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and first began writing and illustrating books together in the third grade. They are the twin powers behind the board book series Star Wars Epic Yarns, which offers a lightspeed take on each of three original Star Wars movies, and Cozy Classics, which abridges classics like "Pride and Prejudice" and "Moby Dick" into 12 words and 12 needle-felted illustrations.

"Great Job, Mom!" and "Great Job, Dad!" are Holman's first solo kidlit projects.

Holman is a former middle-school teacher. He has an education degree, a masters degree (architecture history) and a law degree, all from the University of British Columbia. Holman currently practices law while finding time to make children's books.

Holman and Jack's unique artwork combines needle felting, scale-model set-making and photography. Their work has been exhibited at Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition (2013), The Original Art exhibition in New York (Society of Illustrators, 2015), and the National Museum of Play. Their work has also been featured in the New York Times, People, the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, The Telegraph, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, Parents magazine, American Craft magazine, CBC, and The Globe and Mail.

Holman and Jack are also the creators of the Google Doodle honoring the 148th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder (of "Little House on the Prairie" fame), which appeared on February 7, 2015.

Holman lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver, Canada.