About

Nancy Shepard Metzger Waldman grew up in Texas and has been migrating northward ever since. She now lives in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, though she frequently travels southward to spend time with her two sons, granddaughter, step-children and the rest of her far-flung family.


Nancy writes speculative and mainstream novels, short stories and poetry. She is one of three founding members and editors of Third Person Press. She’s an active member of the thriving Cape Breton writing community, the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, Story Forge Writing group, the Fantasy & Science Fiction Workshop–The Quillians–and is an eight-year veteran of National Novel Writing Month. Nancy studied writing at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute, Bronxville, NY, but gives major credit to her writing friends and colleagues in Cape Breton for teaching her about excellent writing and how to be a writer.


A former R.N., Nancy holds a Masters degree in Psychiatric Nursing and sits on the Board of the local Mental Health Association. She enjoys art, quilting, photography, and developing websites for family and friends, including one for EPIC, an educational charity founded by her husband, Barry, and her own creativity site, The Practically Creative Quarter. In her spare time, Nancy designs digital fashions for Second Life under the name Aplomb Pomilio.


You can read her story, “NetWorld,” in Undercurrents (Third Person Press, December 2008), her story, “Dragonfly,” in Airborne (Third Person Press, October 2010) and her story, “Worker Bee,” in The Nashwaak Review (St. Thomas University Press, Fredericton, NB, December 2010)