Barb Goffman is a mystery short-story writer who has won the Agatha, Macavity, Silver Falchion, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Readers Award for her stories. She's been a finalist for national crime-writing awards thirty-one times: fourteen times for the Agatha, seven times for the Macavity Award, six times for the Anthony Award, three times for the Derringer, and once for the Silver Falchion. (The Silver Falchion was for her book "Don't Get Mad, Get Even," which won best single-author mystery-short-story collection published in 2013.)
Art Taylor is the author of the story collection The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and of the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise, winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He won the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Short Story for “English 398: Fiction Workshop,” originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and he has won three additional Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, three Macavity Awards, and three consecutive Derringer Awards for his short fiction. His work has also appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, and he edited Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015, winner of the Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection. He is an associate professor of English at George Mason University, and he has contributed frequently to the Washington Post, the Washington Independent Review of Books, and Mystery Scene Magazine.
Stacy Woodson writes romantic suspense and crime fiction. She is a U.S. Army veteran and memories of her time in the military are often a source of inspiration for her stories. A California native, who now lives in the DC area, she misses good Mexican food. Stacy made her crime fiction debut with “Duty, Honor, Hammett” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s Department of First Stories and won the 2018 Readers Award. Her story, “Armadillo by Morning,” was a shortlisted finalist for the Bill Crider Prize for Short Fiction in 2019, and “The Hail Mary Play” was featured on the cover of Mystery Weekly Magazine’s July 2019 issue. She is a Daphne du Maurier award winner and a Killer Nashville Claymore finalist. Currently, she is a Publishers Weekly contributor and a member of The Authors Guild of America, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. When she’s not writing, she works as background talent for movies and television. Past projects include Showtime’s Homeland, Amazon’s Jack Ryan, AMC’s The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and Wonder Woman 1984. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. A former psychological operations officer, Stacy supported the special operations community during her ten years in the military deploying to Iraq and other locations in the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. She is both Jumpmaster and Pathfinder qualified. After the Army, she worked as a government contractor and rose to the rank of Executive Vice President before returning to government service supporting the Joint Staff, J3 in the Pentagon.
Cathy Wiley is happiest when plotting stories in her head or on the computer, or when she’s delving into research. She holds a BA in Journalism, with a minor in English, from the University of Maryland. She published two mystery novels, Dead to Writes and Two Wrongs Don't Make a Write, in the Cassie Ellis mystery series set in Baltimore, Maryland. She’s also had several stories accepted for publication in anthologies published by the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime: including “Dead Men Tell No Tales”, published in Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, which was a 2015 Derringer finalist. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, a former president of the SinC Chesapeake Chapter, a member of Mystery Writers of America, and a member of Short Mystery Fiction Society. She lives outside of Baltimore, Maryland, with one spoiled cat and an equally spoiled husband. She and her husband greatly enjoy traveling, although COVID-19 has temporarily halted that.
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