About The Authors

Anita Page’s story “’Twas the Night,” which was published in The Gift of Murder (Wolfmont Press), received a Derringer award in 2010 from the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Her other short stories have appeared in The Prosecution Rests (Little, Brown), Murder New York Style (L&L Dreamspell), The Back Alley, Word Riot, Mysterical-e, Mouth Full of Bullets, Jewish Horizons, Heresies, and Ball State University Forum. Her first novel, Damned If You Don’t, will be published in late 2011 by L&L Dreamspell.

 

Anne-Marie Sutton was born in Baltimore and graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in English. She has taught mass communication and journalism at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut and worked as a political consultant in the state. She maintains her own agency, Brick Lane Enterprises, which provides marketing communication services to business. She is currently at work on a mystery series set in Newport, Rhode Island, where she has lived. In May, 2009, she delivered the L. Eugene Rankin Mystery Lecture at The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, located in Newport.

 

A life-long New Yorker, Terrie Farley Moran is struggling to learn the Irish Tin Whistle, which is not nearly as much fun as hanging out with any or all of her seven grandchildren. Her sto­ries have been published in numerous anthologies and in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Terrie’s noir short, “When A Bright Star Fades,” was named a Distinguished Mystery Story of 2008. Her paranormal mystery, “The Awareness,” can be found in the 2010 MWA anthology, Crimes By Moonlight, edited by Charlaine Harris. Terrie blogs amid the grand banter of a group of talented New York mystery writers at Women of Mystery.

 

Fran Bannigan Cox is a visual artist and writer with 32 years of experience in creative work, showing artwork at The Brooklyn Museum, The Riverside Museum and other galleries. She holds an M.A. from Hunter College in New York and a B.A. from Manhattanville College. She co-authored Conscious Life: Cultivating the Seven Qualities of Authentic Adulthood, published by Conari Press in Berkeley, California. She is currently work­ing on a murder mystery. Her short story, “A Day At A Time” appears in the anthology Murder New York Style.

 

Lina Zeldovich is a bilingual writer who grew up on the clas­sics of Russian literature, started writing at age five, and switched languages at twenty-one. Since then, she has published over a dozen short stories and more than forty theater reviews, and won three Writers’ Digest fiction awards, including first prize in the memoir genre. Her latest works are scheduled to appear in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Writer’s Digest Collection 2010. She is looking for a home for four novels, including her lat­est belly dancing murder mystery, Death by Scheherazade’s Veil. Lina writes for a travel magazine and blogs about her adventures at Novel Adventures. Her passions are trav­eling off-the-beaten-path, all things poisonous, and, of course, belly dancing!

 

Catherine Maiorisi lives in New York City. Most often, she can be found writing in her Starbucks office. Catherine has com­pleted two mysteries, and is currently querying for book one of her series starring NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli and her side­kick Detective P.J. Parker. Her short story, “Old Cape Cod”, received an honorable mention in the Al Blanchard Short Story Contest held annually at the New England Crime Bake. “Justice for All” is her first published story.

 

Clare Toohey was educated in studio art and music, but often buys her greeting cards and plays the ukulele poorly. Unnatural curiosity is her main qualification for working in laboratories, restaurants and bars, technology and data companies, financial services, retail and inside sales, adult education, and factory floors; never mind the executive adventures, which might also have ben­efited from steel-toed shoes and frequent disinfection. She as­pires to hack-dom, and hopes this story is a step forward. Online, she’s clare2e and blogs at Women of Mystery.

 

Laura K. Curtis lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband and three Irish Terriers, which is enough to make anyone occasion­ally dream of murder. When she’s not indulging her bloodlust by writing fatal fantasies or chatting up authors in her role as Community Manager at Criminal Element, she’s playing with fire to create glass beads. She can be  found online on Twitter and at Women of Mystery.

 

 

Triss Stein is thrilled to be included in the newest New York Sisters in Crime chapter anthology and thought it was fun to write about her own Brooklyn neighborhood. She had a long career as a librarian and has published two mystery novels, Murder at the Class Reunion and Digging Up Death, as well as a short story, “NYPDaughter”  in the first Murder New York Style anthology. She has completed the first book in a new series about Brooklyn neighborhoods, featuring an amateur sleuth who is a historian and mother. She describes it as “urban cozy.”  She recently chaired  the national Sisters in Crime/Bowker survey analyzing mystery readership.

 

Lois Karlin is a professional writer and educator who writes and publishes computer help systems, web copy, and video train­ing scripts. She blogs with Women of Mystery, and recently taught writing to war veterans through the Orange County Council of Arts. She is currently revising her second novel, speculative fic­tion set along the Upper Delaware River. “The Understudy” is Karlin’s first published short story, inspired by reminiscences told round a neighbor’s campfire by seasoned veterans of the FDNY. She lives in New York’s Warwick Valley.

 

Stephanie Wilson-Flaherty has been actively writing for pub­lication since the mid-1990s. As a member of Romance Writers of America, she has a long association with its Mystery Suspense Subchapter and e-published her finalist novel in its Golden Heart Contest’s Romantic Suspense division, receiving 4 stars from RT Book Reviews upon its release. Her association with Sisters in Crime began in the later 1990’s and more recently, she also joined MWA as her focus has settled into writing mysteries with a hu­morous touch, set in her native Brooklyn habitat and starring a busybody, older-woman sleuth.

 

Cathi Stoler, an award-winning advertising creative direc­tor/copywriter, has written two mysteries featuring P.I. Helen McCorkendale and magazine editor, Laurel Imperiole. Telling Lies, her first novel, published in April, 2011, takes on the sub­ject of stolen Nazi art. The second, Keeping Secrets, delves into the subject of hidden identity. She is working on the third book in the series, The Hard Way. She has also written several short stories and is delighted that Out of Luck is part of Murder New York Style. Cathi posts at the Women of Mystery blog and you can also visit her at www.cathistoler.com.

 

Lynne Lederman, Ph.D., has a doctorate in molecu­lar biology and virology from the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. She is a widely published freelance medical, science, and health writer, and is also an award-winning printmaker. She is hard at work on a mystery series featuring sci­entist and amateur detective Nanette Newman. She can be found on LinkedIn.

 

 

Cynthia Benjamin is a Manhattan-based writer. She has writ­ten television scripts for both primetime and daytime television. She also developed an original daytime soap opera for CBS. In addition, she is the author of twelve children’s books. Her mystery short story, “The Actress,” was featured in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s “Department of First Stories” in December, 2010.

 

 

Leigh Neely’s childhood dreams of living like famed report­er Nelly Bly led to a satisfying career as a writer and editor, and involved work in newspapers, magazines, and books. Among the notables she has interviewed are author Mary Higgins Clark, singer Michael W. Smith, and actor Grant Goodeve. Though she’s focusing on fiction now, she still writes articles for publications and the Internet. Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Leigh and her husband now live in New Jersey, and enjoy visits from their three children and four grandchildren.

 

Susan Chalfin has published articles on mystery gaming for The Daily News and essays on the darker side of parenting for Big Apple Parent. She lives in Manhattan with her husband (a bankruptcy lawyer and musical omnivore) and two daughters (a fifteen-year-old who writes fantasy novels about elves, and a twelve-year-old who pens myths about dryads). Susan is work­ing on selling her first novel, Preschool Is Murder, a mystery that satirizes Manhattan preschools.

 

Nan Higginson, Agatha Nominee for “Casino Gamble” (pub­lished in Murder New York Style), started her writing career as a winner of the Phyllis Whitney Creative Writing Award. By day, for twenty-four years, Nan taught literary arts, journalism and social studies. At night she coached writers, edited their stories, and contributed stories to Tuesday Tales, anthologies published by the Middle Country Public Library. She also freelanced for Newsday among other publications. Throughout her adventures, Nan says the support and advice provided by the Sisters in Crime, particularly the Guppies and the New York/Tri-State chapter, have been invaluable.

 

Deirdre Verne is the Curriculum Chair of Marketing at Westchester Community College where she has been teaching for the past ten years. In addition, she is a freelance writer and has contributed to business publications, college textbooks and Murder New York Style. Prior to joining the faculty, Deirdre worked in new product development and marketing for Time, Inc. repre­senting magazine titles such as Fortune, Money and Parenting. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University and a MBA from Hofstra University. She resides in Edgemont, NY with her husband and two children.

 

Eileen Dunbaugh’s first work of fiction appeared in the Mystery Writers of America anthology The Prosecution Rests, edited by Linda Fairstein, in 2009. “A Poet’s Justice” grew out of some real family memories and the many years she lived in Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the United States of America.

 

Joan Tuohy is a happily retired administrator/college profes­sor from New Jersey. Asked to describe herself, she will usually say that she is an Irish, Italian Catholic from Queens figuring that pretty much explains everything. But perhaps not quite. She also holds a doctorate in the Foundations of Education, was a found­ing faculty member of her university’s Women’s Studies Program, and was awarded a travel Fulbright Scholarship in China. She has four children and seven perfect grandchildren. She is presently working on an historical mystery that grew out of her interest in the development of western New Jersey prior to the Civil War.

 

Elizabeth Zelvin is a New York City psychotherapist who has directed alcohol treatment programs. Her mystery series featur­ing recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler includes Death Will Get You Sober and Death Will Help You Leave Him, as well as four short stories. Three of Liz’s stories, including one that appeared in Murder New York Style, were nominated for the Agatha Award for Best Short Story. Liz’s stories have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and various anthologies and ezines. Liz’s website is www.elizabethzelvin.com. She blogs on Poe’s Deadly Daughters and SleuthSayers. Next: a novel about Columbus and a CD of Liz’s songs.

 

k.j.a. Wishnia’s first novel, 23 Shades of Black, was nominat­ed for the Edgar and the Anthony Awards. His other novels in­clude Soft Money, a Library Journal Best Mystery of the Year, and Red House, a Washington Post Book World “Rave” Book of the Year. His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Murder in Vegas, Queens Noir, and elsewhere. His protagonists are usu­ally much nicer (and a lot smarter) than the guy in this story. His latest novel, The Fifth Servant, is a Jewish-themed historical set in Prague in the late 16th century. He’d like to thank his stu­dents at Suffolk Community College, especially Nick Bo, Shaun Hantzschel, Sara Jabbar, Grace Osso and Patrick Sullivan, for their comments on an early draft of this story. He can be found at www.kenneth­wishnia.com.