The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast

Submissions for the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award are being accepted through March 31. Named for the late, pioneering African American crime fiction author Eleanor Taylor Bland, the $2000 award is intended to support the recipient in crime fiction writing and career development activities. The winner may choose to use the grant for activities that include workshops, sem...

Kimberly Giarratano is an author of mysteries for teens and adults. Her debut novel, Grunge Gods and Graveyards , won the 2015 Silver Falchion Award for Best YA at Killer Nashville. A former librarian, she is currently an instructor at a SUNY Orange County Community College and a reviewer for BookPage. She is also the chapter liaison for Sisters in Crime. Born in New York and raised in New Jersey,...

Tessa Wegert is the author of the Shana Merchant novels, which include Death in the Family , The Dead Season , Dead Wind , and The Kind to Kill . A former freelance journalist and digital media strategist, Tessa’s work has appeared in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Adweek, and The Economist. She grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut, where she studies martial a...

Melissa Bourbon is the national bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the Ivy Culpepper Book Magic mysteries, the Harlow Cassidy Magical Dressmaking Mystery series, and the Bread Shop Mysteries, written as Winnie Archer. A former secondary English/Language Arts teacher and Creative Writing teacher with Southern Methodist University’s CAPE program, among others, she has applied h...

Annette Dashofy is the USA Today best-selling author of twelve novels including the Agatha-nominated Zoe Chambers mystery series about a paramedic/deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township. Her standalone, Death By Equine , set in the world of Thoroughbred horseracing, won the 2021 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award for excellence in thoroughbred racing literature. Her first in a new...

Lynne Reeves Griffin is an internationally recognized family counselor, public speaker, teacher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Parents, Cognoscenti, Psychology Today, Solstice Literary Magazine, Chautauqua Journal, Craft Literary, Fiction Writers Review, and more. Lynne regularly appears as a media guest expert to discuss contemporary family life and preventive men...

Dana Cameron writes across many genres, but especially crime and speculative fiction (including the Fangborn urban fantasy series). Her work, inspired by her career in archaeology, has won multiple Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards, and has been nominated for the Edgar Award. Several of Dana's Emma Fielding archaeology mysteries appear on the Hallmark Movie & Mystery Channel. When she i...

RAQUEL V. REYES writes Latina protagonists. Her work has won a LEFTY award, and International Latino Book Award, been nominated for an Agatha Award and optioned for film. Raquel’s short stories appear in various anthologies, including The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022. Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/LatinaSleuths TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@latinasleuths Instagram https://www....

Silver Falchion and CIBA Murder & Mayhem award-winning author Lori Roberts Herbst writes the Callie Cassidy Mystery series. A former journalism teacher and counselor, Lori serves as Board Secretary for Sisters in Crime. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, as well as the SinC North Dallas chapter and the Guppy chapter, where she moderates the Cozy Gup group. Lori lives in Dallas, Tex...

R. Franklin James grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. A UC Berkeley grad, she cultivated a different type of writing—legislation and public policy. After a career of political advocacy she returned to her love of writing. Her debut novel, The Fallen Angels Book Club, was the first of six books in her Hollis Morgan Mysteries. The series has been made into Lifetime movies. Her latest series: The...

Liz Milliron is the author of The Laurel Highlands Mysteries series, set in the scenic Laurel Highlands of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and The Home Front Mysteries, set in Buffalo, NY during the early years of World War II. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Pennwriters, International Thriller Writers and The Historical Novel Society. Liz splits her time between Pittsburgh and the Laurel Highland...

Jeffrey Marks is a long-time mystery fan and freelancer . After numerous mystery author profiles for The Armchair Detective, Mystery Scene, and other genre publications, he chose to chronicle the short but full life of mystery writer Craig Rice. That biography (Who Was That Lady?) encouraged him to write mystery fiction. His works include Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s/1950...

Dharma Kelleher writes action-driven thrillers that explore the complexities of social and criminal justice in a world that favors the privileged. She is one of the only openly transgender authors in the crime fiction genre. Dharma lives in Arizona with her wife and a black cat named Mouse. Learn more about Dharma and her work at https://queerwomenkickass.com . Facebook Page https://facebook.com/d...

Kelly Oliver is the award-winning and bestselling author of three mystery series: the seven-book suspense series, The Jessica James Mysteries; the three-book middle grade series, Pet Detective Mysteries; and the four-book historical cozy series, The Fiona Figg Mysteries. Chaos at Carnegie Hall is the latest Fiona Figg mystery, and the first to feature sidekick, Kitty Lane. When she’s not writing n...

Amanda Flower is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over forty-five mystery novels. Her novels have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Romantic Times, and she had been featured in USA Today, First for Women, and Woman’s World. She currently writes for Penguin-Random House (Berkley), Kensington, and Sourcebooks. In addition to being a write...

Lorie Lewis Ham lives in Reedley, California and has been writing ever since she was a child. Her first song and poem were published when she was 13, and she has gone on to publish many articles, short stories, and poems throughout the years, as well as write for a local newspaper, and publish 6 mystery novels. For the past 12 years, Lorie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher of Kings River...

Greg Herren is the award winning author of over forty novels, editor of over twenty anthologies, and has publisher over fifty short stories. A sexual health counselor, he lives in New Orleans with his partner of twenty-seven years. Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/gregherren Twitter @scottynola Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gregh121/ Website gregwritesblog.com ***************** Sisters...

Tara Laskowski’s debut suspense novel One Night Gone won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award. Her second novel, The Mother Next Door , was called a “polished and entertaining read” by The New York Times Book Review. She also wrote two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders . She has won the Agatha Award and Thriller Award for her short fict...

Shawn Reilly Simmons is the author of seven novels in the Red Carpet Catering mystery series featuring Penelope Sutherland, chef-owner of a movie set catering company. She’s also written several short stories which have been published in various anthologies, including “The Last Word" and "Bay of Reckoning," both Agatha Award Winners for Best Short Story. Shawn is also an Anthony Award...

Dru Ann Love reportedly spends her working hours at the mysterious daytime situation. Her non-working hours are spent less reclusively on dru’s book musings, her award-winning blog where the “day in the life,” “get to know you,” and “word with the author” segments are prominently featured. She is an avid reader who is happy to be in “her element” within the mystery community. Dru Ann is a 2017 MWA...

José H. Bográn is the internationally published author of novels, short stories, and scripts for film, plays, and television. José's genre of choice is thrillers, but he likes to throw in a twist of romance into the mix. Although he’s the son of a journalist, he ironically prefers to write fiction rather than fact. His latest novel, DARKSOUL, co-authored with Steven Savile, is about Sophie Kea...

Kristopher Zgorski is the founder and sole reviewer at the crime fiction book blog, BOLO Books. In 2018, he was awarded the Mystery Writers of America Raven Award for “outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing.” Kristopher writes a column on digital crime fiction resources for every issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and his blog reviews are syndicated...

Laurie R. King is the NYT bestselling author of eighteen Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes novels, five Kate Martinellis, two Stuyvesant-Greys, five standalones, novellas, and anthologies, and in 2022 is launching a new series with BACK TO THE GARDEN, featuring SFPD Inspector Raquel Laing. She has won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Lambda, Wolfe, Macavity, Creasey dagger, and Romantic Times Career Achieve...

Gabriel Valjan lives in Boston's South End. He is the author of the Roma Series and Company Files (Winter Goose Publishing) and the Shane Cleary series (Level Best Books). He has been nominated for the Agatha, the Anthony, the Silver Falchion for Best PI, and received the Macavity Award for Best Short Story. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America and a lifetime member of Sisters in Crime...

Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries feature a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. The Japanese translation of her seventh and final Mas Arai mystery, Hiroshima Boy , is nominated for two awards in Japan. Her first historical mystery is Clark and Division , which follows a Ja...