Jasmine L. Holmes

Jasmine Holmes is an educator, historian, and author whose work moves between the classroom and the archive. She has written several trade-published nonfiction books on faith, history, and identity with houses including Baker, B&H, and IVP. Her debut novel, Our Sister's Keeper, marks her entrance into fiction. A Southern gothic horror set in a fictional all-Black town in 1927 Mississippi, it follows women who carry the weight of memory, sisterhood, and inherited trauma across generations.

Holmes holds an M.A. in History, and her scholarship is grounded in the American South and the stories it has tried to forget. She serves as Director of Museum Education at the Two Mississippi Museums, where she designs curriculum and programming that bring Mississippi's history to learners of every age. Outside the museum, she runs a freelance editorial and historical consulting practice, helping authors shape manuscripts in history, memoir, and narrative nonfiction.

Whether she is shaping a museum lesson, building a fictional world, or editing someone else's manuscript, Holmes returns to the same questions: who gets remembered, who gets erased, and what it costs to tell the truth about the past. Our Sister's Keeper is fiction. The histories beneath it are not.

She lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her husband, their three sons, and two adorable cats.