Donna Andrews serves as President of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Her hobbies include books, movies, gardening, amateur photography, computer and strategy games, and practical research on procrastination--though she obviously needs remedial work on the procrastination front: Swan for the Money (Minotaur, 2009) and the upcoming Stork Raving Mad (Minotaur, July 2010) are her fifteenth and sixteenth books published since 1999. (president@mwa-ma.org)
Back to TopCon Lehane has been a college professor, a union organizer, and -- like his protagonist Brian McNulty -- a journeyman bartender. After spending most of his life in and around New York City, he's worked in DC for the past fifteen years as a labor journalist. He is the author of three mystery novels featuring New York city bartender and friend of the little guy, Brian McNulty, Beware the Solitary Drinker, What Goes Around Comes Around, and Death at the Old Hotel, and is at present at work on a new series. (vp@mwa-ma.org)
Back to TopMeredith Cole directed feature films and wrote screenplays before writing mysteries. She won the St. Martin’s/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery competition. Her book Posed for Murder, set in Williamsburg Brooklyn, was published by St. Martin’s Minotaur in 2009. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Her second book, Dead in the Water, comes out in 2010. She lives in Central Virginia, and teaches mystery writing and screenwriting. (secretary@mwa-ma.org)
Back to TopBefore Alan Orloff stepped off the corporate merry-go-round, he had an eclectic (some might say disjointed) career. As an engineer, he worked on nuclear submarines, supervised assembly workers in factories, facilitated technology transfer from the Star Wars program, and learned to stack washing machines three high in a warehouse with a forklift. His debut mystery is Diamonds for the Dead (Midnight Ink, 2010), and the first book in his Last Laff mystery series, Killer Routine, is scheduled for 2011 (also from Midnight Ink). He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two children. (treasurer@mwa-ma.org)
Back to TopClyde Linsley, former vice president of MWA-Mid Atlantic, is the author of four mystery novels, three of which are set in early 19th Century America. He had 40-some-odd years of experience in newspapers, radio, television, magazines and the internet before publishing his first mystery novel in 2000, and is also a full-time freelance writer. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. (chaptersliaison@mwa-ma.org)
Back to TopLaura Durham is the Agatha Award-winning author of Better Off Wed, For Better Or Hearse, and To Love and To Perish. When she isn't writing, she heads up a successful wedding planning company and hangs out with her husband and baby daughter. Laura is a graduate of Duke University and did not major in wedding planning. (events@mwa-ma.org)
Back to TopEllen Crosby has worked as a free-lance regional reporter for The Washington Post and was the Moscow correspondent for ABC Radio News. Her first US novel was The Merlot Murders (Scribner, 2006) which is set in Virginia. The Chardonnay Charade, a sequel, will be out in August, 2007. She is also the author of Moscow Nights, which was published in London by Piatkus Books. Ellen is currently working on a third Virginia wine country book. (locliaison@mwa-ma.org )
Back to TopKathryn Johnson, founder of Write by You (www.writebyyou.com), an author’s mentoring service located near Washington, D.C., writes as Kathryn Jensen, K.M. Kimball and Nicole Davidson. Forty of her novels have sold to major publishers. Her children’s book, Secret of the Red Flame, was an Agatha Award finalist. A popular conference speaker, she also has served as judge on the Edgar Awards Committee. Her WIP, THE CHAMELEON WRITER: Thriving in Today’s Publishing World, will be published by The Writer’s Institute in 2008. (newsletter@mwa-ma.org)
Back to TopDaniel Stashower is the author of the Edgar Award-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. He has also written five mystery novels and numerous short stories. Dan is a recipient of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship. His latest book is The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder. (nominations@mwa-ma.org)
Back to TopMarcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of six Hannah Ives mysteries: Sing It To Her Bones, Unbreathed Memories, Occasion Of Revenge, In Death’s Shadow, This Enemy Town and Through the Darkness. She is editor/author of Naked Came The Phoenix, a star-studded, tongue-in-cheek collaborative serial novel about murder in a fashionable health spa. A second collaboration, I’d Kill for That, is set in an upscale gated community. Marcia’s short stories appear in numerous collections, including “With Love, Marjorie Ann,” “And Safety First,” both Agatha Award nominees, and “Too Many Cooks,” winner of both the Agatha and Anthony awards for Best Short Story. A recent story, "Driven to Distraction" won the Agatha and is included in "The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Vol. 2.” (outreach@mwa-ma.org)
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From 2002 - 2006, Noreen Wald served as President of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of MWA. She is the author of two mystery series-the Jake O'Hara Ghostwriter series and writing as Nora Charles, the South Florida Senior Sleuth Series starring Kate Kennedy as a modern Ms. Marple. Noreen has taught writing classes at The Writer's Center and the Smithsonian. Many of her students have been published. Noreen also served as Executive Vice President and Secretary for MWA's National Board of Directors.
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