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SU KOPIL’s short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Flash and Bang, a Short Mystery Fiction Society anthology (Untreed Reads Publishing), Destination: Mystery! (Darkhouse Books), Fish or Cut Bait: A Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press), and Woman’s World magazine. A book cover designer obsessed with books, dogs, and creepy old houses, Su invites you to visit her website, www.sukopil.com, or follow her on Twitter @INKspillers.
FRANCES MCNAMARA is author of the Emily Cabot Mysteries, set mostly in Chicago in the 1890s. Death at the Paris Exposition (2016) is the sixth in that series. Her story in this anthology, “Wicked Writers,” introduces Lucy O’Donnell, who will be featured in a new series set in contemporary Boston, MA. Frances grew up in Boston, where her father was police commissioner in the 1960s, and she is a librarian who formerly worked at The University of Chicago Library. When not writing, Frances can be found sailing one-design boats on the Charles River or Boston Harbor. fmcnamara.wordpress.com
RUTH MOOSE has published three collections of short stories, including some stories that originally appeared in Atlantic, Redbook, and other places. She’s also published six collections of poetry. Ruth was on the creative writing faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for fifteen years. Her first novel, Doing It at the Dixie Dew, won the Minotaur/Malice Domestic Competition for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel in 2013. The sequel, Wedding Bell Blues, is due out in the summer of 2016. She lives in Pittsboro, NC. www.Ruthmoose.com
To date, Domestic 28’s Achievement Award recipient Katherine Hall Page has published thirty books: twenty-three in the Faith Fairchild series with The Body in the Wardrobe released in April 2016; five juvenile/young adults; a cookbook, Have Faith in Your Kitchen; and Small Plates—Short Fiction, a collection. She was the first author who received or was nominated for Agathas in Best Novel, Best First, Best Short Story, and Best Nonfiction. Katherine and her husband live in Maine and Massachusetts.
USA Today best-selling author GIGI PANDIAN is the child of cultural anthropologists from New Mexico and the southern tip of India. She spent her childhood being dragged around the world, and now lives in the San Francisco Bay area. She writes the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mystery series (Artifact, Pirate Vishnu, and Quicksand) and the Accidental Alchemist mysteries (The Accidental Alchemist and The Masquerading Magician). Gigi’s debut mystery novel was awarded a Malice Domestic Grant, the follow-up won the Left Coast Crime Rose Award, and her locked-room mystery short fiction has been nominated for Agatha and Macavity awards. www.gigipandian.com
NEIL PLAKCY lives in South Florida where “Djinn and Tonic” is set, but regrets that he has yet to encounter any genies, though he regularly comes in contact with squirrels and Russian immigrants. He is the author of the Golden Retriever mysteries, inspired by his own dogs Sam, Brody, and Griffin. www.mahubooks.com
KM ROCKWOOD draws on a varied background for stories, including working as a laborer in a steel-fabrication plant, operating glass melters and related equipment in a fiberglass-manufacturing facility, and supervising an inmate work crew in a large medium-security state prison. These jobs, as well as work as a special-education teacher in an alternative high school and as a GED teacher in county detention facilities, provide most of the background for short stories and novels, including the Jesse Damon Crime Novel series. kmrockwood.com
HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate, winning thirty-three Emmys and dozens more journalism honors. The best-selling author of eight mysteries, Ryan’s also an award-winner in her second profession—now with five Agathas, two Anthonys, two Macavitys, the Daphne, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her Truth Be Told won the 2015 Agatha, and she edited the 2015 Agatha-winning nonfiction Writes of Passage. Critics call her “a superb and gifted storyteller. Her What You See is a Library Journal Best of 2015. A founder of MWA University, Hank was 2013 president of national Sisters in Crime. www.HankPhillippiRyan.com
Author/actress KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT’s Jinxed (2015) and Down and Out in Beverly Heels (2013) are the first two mystery novels about amateur sleuth Jinx Fogarty. She’s also written the memoir, Last Dance at the Savoy: Life, Love & Caring for Someone with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (2016), and has completed the novel September Girl. Kathryn wrote the memoir, Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood, and the paranormal mystery, Dark Passages, with an affectionate nod to her stint on the television cult classic, Dark Shadows, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. She continues to work as an actress.
www.kathrynleighscott.com
SHAWN REILLY SIMMONS is the author of the Red Carpet Catering mysteries published by Henery Press. The third book in the series, Murder on a Designer Diet, will be released in June 2016. Shawn is a member of the Malice Domestic board, a coeditor at Level Best Books, and a member of both Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America.
www.ShawnReillySimmons.com @ShawnRSimmons
B.K. (BONNIE) STEVENS’s first novel, Interpretation of Murder, is a whodunit that offers insights into deaf culture and sign language interpreting. Her young adult novel, Agatha-nominated Fighting Chance, is a martial arts mystery set in Virginia. Wildside Press is publishing Her Infinite Variety: Tales of Women and Crime, which collects some of the over fifty short stories B.K. has published. Most originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. B.K. has won a Derringer and has been nominated for Agatha and Macavity awards. This year, “A Joy Forever” is an Agatha nominee. She and her husband, Dennis, live in Virginia. www.bkstevensmysteries.com
MARCIA TALLEY is the author of Daughter of Ashes and thirteen previous novels featuring Maryland sleuth Hannah Ives. A winner of the Malice Domestic grant and an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel, Marcia won an Agatha Award and an Anthony Award for her short story “Too Many Cooks” and an Agatha Award for her short story “Driven to Distraction.” She is the editor of two mystery collaborations, and her short stories have been published in more than a dozen magazines and anthologies. She divides her time between Annapolis, MD, and a quaint cottage in the Bahamas. www.marciatalley.com
Malice Domestic 28 Guest of Honor and Agatha and Edgar® awards-nominated author VICTORIA THOMPSON writes the Gaslight Mystery Series, set in turn-of-the-century New York City and featuring midwife Sarah Brandt and detective Frank Malloy. Her latest is Murder in Morningside Heights, May 2016. She also contributed to the award-winning writing textbook Many Genres/One Craft. Victoria has taught at Penn State University and currently teaches in the Seton Hill University master’s program in creative writing. www.victoriathompson.com
CHARLES AND CAROLINE TODD are the authors of the best-selling Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries and the Bess Crawford Mysteries. They were the guests of honor at Malice Domestic 27 and won an Agatha Award for A Question of Honor in 2013. They also had a short story published in Malice Domestic 9. No Shred of Evidence, the eighteenth Rutledge (William Morrow), was published in February 2016, and the eighth Bess Crawford, The Shattered Tree, will be published in the summer of 2016. www.charlestodd.com
L.C. TYLER’s comic crime series featuring author-and-agent duo Ethelred Tressider and Elsie Thirkettle has been twice nominated for the Edgar® (Allan Poe) Award in the U.S. and has won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award (best comic crime novel of the year) with Herring in the Library and Crooked Herring in the U.K. His new historical crime series (the latest of which is A Masterpiece of Corruption) features seventeenth-century lawyer John Grey. L.C. has lived all over the world but is now based in London.
www.lctyler.com
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