StoryFest 2023

Emily Arsenault is the author of several literary mysteries, including In Search of the Rose Notes, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year; The Broken Teaglass, a New York Times Notable Crime Book; and The Evening Spider. She lives in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, with her husband and daughter. All the Pretty Things is her second novel for young adults. To learn more about Emily and her books go to emilyarsenault.com or follow her on Facebook.

Stephen G. Bowling is an award-winning author, entrepreneur and philanthropist. His award-winning books for children include Grandma’s House is Haunted , The Simon’s Tree House Adventures, and The Legend of Marbellia.

Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of the novels Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and Miss Corpus; short story collections Nothing Untoward, Commencement and Rest Area, and Middle Grade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins. Ghost Eaters, a new supernatural horror novel, will scare the pants off you. Chapman authored the Marvel series Scream: Curse of Carnage. He has written Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, Typhoid Fever, as well as for Edge of Spider-Verse and Venomverse among others.

Chapman created The Pumpkin Pie Show, which has been performed at the Romanian Theatre Festival of Sibiu, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Minnesota Fringe Festival, and more.

Chapman studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Burren College of Art, and Sarah Lawrence College. He currently teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University

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May Cobb grew up in the piney woods of East Texas where her books My Summer Darlings, The Hunting Wives and Big Woods are set. She earned her MA from San Francisco State University where she studied Victorian Literature. Her essays and interviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the Rumpus, Edible Austin and Austin Monthly. A Texas native, she lives in Austin with her family.

Cobb’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Austin Monthly, and Texas Highways Magazine. Her proudest achievement remains clinching first place in the UIL competition for Personal Writing when I was in the 4th grade.

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Lynne Constantine is an internationally bestselling author who writes with her sister under the pen name, Liv Constantine. Their books have sold more than 1 million copies worldwide, have been translated into 28 languages, are available in 33 countries, and are in development for both television and film. Their debut novel, The Last Mrs. Parrish, is a Reese Witherspoon book club selection and has been optioned by Netflix. Lynne also writes the Jack Logan series under the pen name L.C. Shaw. She has a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and is a board member of International Thriller Writers.

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Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Fearful Symmetries, The Doll Collection, The Monstrous, Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, Black Feathers, Haunted Nights (with Lisa Morton), and Mad Hatters and March Hares (stories inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There). Forthcoming are The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, and The Best of the Best (covering the first Ten volumes of the Best Horror of the Year series).

She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.

She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar.

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T.M. Dunn has served as senior director of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, where she holds an MFA in creative writing. She coaches aspiring and established writers and teaches creative writing workshops. She is the cohost of The Westport Library’s podcast, Go Ahead, Write Something. This Italian American, Bronx-raised rebel has traveled the world.

Award-winning novelist and filmmaker Owen Egerton is the writer/director of several films including the Mercy Black (Blumhouse, Netflix), Follow, and the horror-comedy Blood Fest (Rooster Teeth/Warner Media). He is also the author of a number of books including The Book of Harold the Illegitimate Son of God, How Best to Avoid Dying, and the PEN Southwest Book Award winner Hollow, which was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2017. He is co-host of Texas Monthly's Good Newscast podcast, an instructor for Sundance Institute Collab, and one of the talents behind the Alamo Drafthouse’s long-running comedy show Master Pancake Theater.

Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the Sewanee Review and Granta. He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, his debut short story collection composed of eight narratives about residents of a fictional building in Harlem, will be published by Scribner in August 2022.

Gregory Galloway is the author of the Alex Award-winning novel, As Simple As Snow, The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand, and the short story collection, Careful & Other Stories. His third novel, Just Thieves, was published in October 2021, Galloway, the son of a juvenile probation officer, was born and raised in the small, southeastern Iowa town of Keokuk, located near the confluence of the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers. Galloway graduated with MFAs in both fiction and poetry from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City. He worked at a downtown record store while attending college, a job driven by his longstanding interest in music. Galloway currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, with his wife.

Tommy Greenwald is the author of Game Changer, Rivals, and Dinged, among many other books for children. Game Changer is on eighteen state lists, was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, a YALSA Top Ten pick, and a Junior Library Guild Premier selection. Rivals was also an Amazon Best Book of the Month, a Junior Library Guild selection, and a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Greenwald is also the author of the Charlie Joe Jackson series and Crimebiters! series. Day job–wise, Tommy is the cofounder of Spotco Advertising, a theatrical and entertainment advertising agency in New York City, and the lyricist and co-bookwriter (with Andrew Lippa) of John & Jen, an off-Broadway musical that has been produced around the country and internationally. To read woefully outdated information about him, visit tommygreenwald.com.

Rachel Harrison is the National Bestselling author of BLACK SHEEP, CACKLE, SUCH SHARP TEETH, and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS. She lives in Western New York with her husband and their cat/overlord.

Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, and musician originally from Cleveland but now living in New York City. He has writ­ten for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon, GQ, McSweeney’s, theCleveland Plain Dealer, and Guitar World, among other publications. He is a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life and hosts his own radio show, The Goddamn Dave Hill Show, on WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey. Dave has starred in his own TV series, The King of Miami, on the MOJO Network, which was canceled even though Dave really liked it. He has also appeared on Comedy Central, BBC America, MTV, and Adult Swim, among others, and is a regular host on HBO and Cinemax. Dave performs live comedy in theaters and basements all over the world.

 He also plays guitar and sings in his own rock band, Valley Lodge, whose song “Go” is the theme song for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is his sec­ond collection of nonfiction essays. Tasteful Nudes: . . . and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation is his first.

Sivan Hong is the talented author and illustrator of the best-selling children's book series, The Super Fun Day Books. Her popular titles, such as Benny J. and the Horrible Halloween, George J. and the Miserable Monday, Emily D. and the Fearful First Day, and Avery G. and the Scary End of School, celebrate the triumphs of neurodiverse children as they face challenges with determination and courage. Her inspiring work has been recognized by NBC and News12.

Sonya Huber is the author of seven books, including the new guide, Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto, and the award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program.

Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist, professor, and literary critic living in Austin, TX. He is the author of Zero Saints and Coyote Songs, and the editor of Both Sides. His work has been nominated twice for the Bram Stoker Award as well as the Locus Award and won the Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel in 2019. His editing work as been nominated for the Anthony Award and the International Latino Book Award. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Electric Literature, and LitReactor. His reviews appear regularly in places like NPR, Publishers Weekly, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Criminal Element, Mystery Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other print and online venues. He’s been a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards twice and has judged the PANK Big Book Contest, the Splatterpunk Awards, the Newfound Prose Prize, and the 2021 FIU Student Literary Awards, among others.

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and been recipient of several awards including: the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association.  Stephen is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Victoria Kann is the author-artist of the New York Times bestseller Peterrific, and four #1 New York Times bestselling books Aqualicious, Emeraldalicious, Silverlicious, and Goldilicous. She is the artist and coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers Pinkalicious and Purplicious. In addition, Victoria cowrote Pinkalicious: The Musical which premiered in New York City to sold-out audiences and continues to be performed across the country. Victoria is the co-executive producer of Pinkalicious & Peterrific on PBS Kids. Her award-winning artwork has graced the covers and pages of many magazines, newspapers, and books. She lives with her husband and two daughters. Readers can follow Pinkalicious on Facebook and Twitter. For more Pinkalicious and Peterrific fun, visit www.thinkpinkalicious.com.

Cassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer, and former scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal. Khaw's work can be found in places like Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Khaw's first original novella, Hammers on Bone, was a British Fantasy award and Locus award finalist, and their novella, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, is published by Nightfire.

Caroline Kepnes is the New York Times bestselling author of You, Hidden Bodies, Providence and You Love Me. Her work has been translated into a multitude of languages and inspired a television series adaptation of You, currently on Netflix. Kepnes graduated from Brown University and then worked as a pop culture journalist for Entertainment Weekly and a TV writer for 7th Heaven and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She grew up in Cape Cod, and now lives in Los Angeles.

Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award, the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics’ Award, and the Pinckley Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus, and the Today show. One of Variety Magazine’s inaugural “10 Storytellers to Watch,” Angie has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Vogue, Glamour, and numerous literary journals. She lives in northern Virginia with her family. Happiness Falls is her second novel.

Elise Hart Kipness is a former television sports reporter turned crime writer. Her debut mystery, Lights Out, the first in a series, will be released in the fall of 2023 by Thomas & Mercer. In addition to reporting for Fox Sports Network, Elise was a reporter at New York’s WNBC-TV, News 12 Long Island, NY, and the Associated Press. She is currently Co-President of the newly formed Sisters in Crime Connecticut (SinC-CT). A graduate of Brown University, Elise has two college age sons and lives on a hobby farm with her husband, three labradoodles, chickens, ducks and one very cantankerous turkey.

LaQuette writes sexy, stylish, and sensational romance. That means she writes sentimental and steamy stories (like Hallmark movies, but with lots of sex) featuring at least one main character who always keeps it cute. 

This Brooklyn native writes unapologetically bold, character-driven stories. Her novels feature diverse ensemble casts who are confident in their right to appear on the page. 

If she's not writing, she's probably trying on or looking for her next great makeup find.

Lorien Lawrence is a writer and middle school English teacher from Connecticut. She has creative writing degrees from Wheaton College and Bath Spa University. When she’s not reading or writing, she can be found exploring New England with her family.

Eric LaRocca (he/they) is the author of several works of horror and dark fiction, including the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Eric is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and currently resides in Boston, MA with his partner.

2021 Vivian Award finalist and DEIA activist in the romance industry, LaQuette writes sexy, stylish, and sensational romance. She crafts dramatic, emotionally epic tales that are deeply pigmented by reality's paintbrush. This Brooklyn native writes unapologetically bold, character-driven stories. Her novels feature diverse ensemble casts who are confident in their right to appear on the page. She is the 2016 Author of the Year Golden Apple Award winner & the 2016 Write Touch Readers Award winner. Writing--her escape from everyday madness-- has always been a friend and source of comfort. At the age of sixteen, she read her first romance novel and realized the genre was missing something: people that looked and lived like her. As a result, her characters and settings are always designed to provide positive representations of people of color and various marginalized communities.

Rowan MacColl is a comic artist and illustrator based in a tiny studio apartment in Queens, New York. She was born and raised in Westport, graduating Staples High School in 2014 and the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018. Since then, Rowan has been involved in various anthologies, art fairs, and publishing graphic novels. Her latest graphic novel, Who Was Accused in the Salem Witch Trials?: Tituba, e will be published September 2023. Rowan loves cats, fairy tales, and drawing voluminous historical outfits.

Bracken MacLeod is the Bram Stoker, Splatterpunk, and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of the novels, is the author of the novels, Mountain Home, Stranded, Come to Dust , and soon, Closing Costs (coming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

His short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including LampLight, ThugLit, and Splatterpunk and has been collected in White Night and Other Pawns and 13 Views of the Suicide Woods, which the New York Times Book Review called, "Superb."  

Before devoting himself to full time writing, he worked as a civil and criminal litigator, a university philosophy instructor, and a martial arts teacher. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and son, where he is at work on his next novel.

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene is a proudly Soweto-made soul, who now makes her home anywhere with sunshine and writing space. An Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum, Magogodi is a Caine Prize, Hedgebrook, MacDowell and Rona Jaffe Award honoree. She leads immersive courses and experiences at Love As A Kind of Cure, a social enterprise she co-founded to dismantle white supremacy.

Josh Malerman is the mastermind behind the 2018 hit Netflix thriller, Bird Box. He is an author of short stories and novels, and he is also the singer/songwriter of the Detroit rock band The High Strung.

While on tour with his band, Josh wrote novels in the passenger seat between cities. Bird Box wasn’t the first novel he wrote, but it was the first one published in 2014, to much critical acclaim. His other novels include Unbury Carol, Goblin, On This, The Day of the Pig, Black Mad Wheel, A House at the Bottom of a Lake, and his latest, Inspection. His books have been nominated for the Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the James Herbert Award.

Josh lives in Michigan with his fiancé, artist/musician, Allison Laakko. Aside from writing, he is currently working on a new album with his band.

Janae Marks is the New York Times bestselling author of middle grade novels From the Desk of Zoe Washington, On Air with Zoe Washington and A Soft Place to Land. She has an MFA in Writing for Children from The New School and lives in CT with her husband, daughter and miniature schnauzer named Cookie.

Connor McCann is a cartoonist and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. A Westport native, he graduated from Staples High School in 2014. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018. His critically acclaimed graphic novel, God Bless The Machine, was published and distributed internationally by Strangers Publishing in 2021, and the highly anticipated follow up will be released this fall. He loves Pieter Bruegel paintings, vinyl toys, and falling asleep standing up.

Tessa is an award-winning writer who first published in 1996. Her linked short story collection, LONDON ROAD: LINKED STORIES, received a ‘Featured’ review from Kirkus, was an Amazon best-seller, and a gold medal winner in the 2012 eLit Awards.

Her non-fiction book, COCKTAILS FOR BOOK LOVERS (Sourcebooks), was also an Amazon best-seller. Her publication credits include the Connecticut Review and Equinox, a UK poetry journal. She’s currently writing a contemporary fantasy novel inspired by British mythology and pursuing her MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

She was founder and editor of eChook Digital Publishing (now closed). 

Tessa is also host, writer and producer of BookGirlTV (BGTV), an award-winning digital channel that offers author interviews, book reviews, and instruction for writers. In 2020, she started Bloom Writers’ Studio which offers courses to help writers establish a writing routine, get into flow, and feel the satisfaction of finally getting those stories written and published! Bloom Writers’ Studio has 10k+ likes on FB.

Travis Myers is a retired New York City Police Detective who writes the Tommy Keane Detective series with his sister, Natasha Myers Marsiguerra. Their books are well-braided fictional tales that are nearly all based in actual events that they, and their friends and relatives, have lived. Travis and Natasha deliver on their promise to tell gritty, honest stories that are rooted in the everyday lives of everyday people.

John Palisano's short fiction has appeared in many places. His work has been cited by the Bram Stoker Award four times. He's worked for over a decade in Hollywood for people like Ridley Scott and Marcus Nispel. He's recently been working as a ghost-screenwriter.

Namrata Patel is an Indian-American author who lives in Boston. Her writing examines diaspora, dual-cultural identity among Indian-Americans and explores this dynamic while also touching on both—the family’s we’re born with and those we choose. Namrata has lived in India, Spokane, London, and New York City. Namrata has been writing for most of her adult life and loves creating characters who are relatable and aspirational. Her novel The Candid Life of Meena Dave is currently long listed for Best First Novel Prize by The Center for Fiction.

Sally J. Pla is the author of two acclaimed novels, The Someday Birds and Stanley Will Probably Be Fine, and a picture book. She is an autism/neurodiversity advocate who has worked as a business journalist and in public education.

Dan Poblocki is an American author of mystery, horror, and adventure novels for young people. He is the co-author with Neil Patrick Harris of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Magic Misfits (writing under the pen-name Alec Azam). He's also the author of The Stone Child, The Nightmarys, and the Mysterious Four series and many more. His books, The Ghost of Graylock and The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe, were Junior Library Guild selections and made the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list. His work has been translated into French, Greek, Russian, German, Polish, and Farsi. Dan now writes full time in Saugerties, NY where he lives with two scaredy cats in a creaky old house. He's probably working on something new this very minute!

Oliver Radclyffe is a British-born writer whose work examines the topics of gender identity, sexual orientation, familial allegiance and social class from a trans perspective. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and Electric Literature. In addition the the monograph ADULT HUMAN MALE, he also has a memoir entitled FRIGHTEN THE HORSES forthcoming from Roxanne Gay Press in 2024. Oliver currently lives in Connecticut where he is raising his four children.

Jay Schadler is a two-time Emmy Award winning journalist, artist and keynote speaker.

Mitzy Sky is an award-winning poet who writes to transmute the pain to love. She’s consciously unlearning messages that hindered her from living wholeheartedly. Her focus is on letting go of internalized oppression to move forward from shame to presence, beyond labels. 

Lizzie Stark is a nonfiction author and participation designer. Her most recent book, Egg: A Dozen Ovatures (W.W. Norton, 2023), explores the world’s largest cellular workhorse from chickens to penguins and art to crime. Previous books include Pandora’s DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree (Chicago Review Press, 2014), an ALA Notable Book and Leaving Mundania (Chicago Review Press, 2012), about larp. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Washington Post, Daily Beast, Salon, i09.com, and Today Show, among others. Lizzie is also an award-winning analog game designer and game editor. Her work has been shown at festivals including IndieCade, Stockholm Fringe Festival, and the Future of Storytelling. A frequent speaker in college classrooms, her credits include talks about science writing, medicine, and game design as well as a TedX talk about the patient experience. She holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Emerson College. She’s been awarded multiple residencies at the Yaddo colony, and was named a Wallace Foundation Resident there in 2016.

M.J. Soni/ Manju Soni (she/her) is a former eye surgeon turned author. She was born and grew up under apartheid in South Africa where she was introduced to social justice issues at a young age during the Soweto Uprising student protests. Her debut nonfiction book Defying Apartheid captures her experiences during these tumultuous times. Since then she has turned her scalpel to writing mystery and suspense books.

Her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Akashic Books, Apeiron Review and The Establishment. She’s the recipient of the Leon B. Burnstein/MWA-NY Scholarship, and 2020 runner up to the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award. She was a 2019 Pitch Wars mentee, and a 2020 Pitch Wars mentor. Manju is also a proud member of Crime Writers of Color and Sisters in Crime.

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collection, Growing Things and Other Stories. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. Paul has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.

Wendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels All Is Not Forgotten, Emma In the Night, The Night Before, Don’t Look For Me and American Girl. Her novels have been translated into 23 foreign languages, topped bestseller lists both nationally and abroad, and have been optioned for both television and film. Wendy holds degrees from Brown University and Georgetown Law School, and has worked in finance and several areas of the law. As a former family law attorney with training in child advocacy, Wendy draws from her knowledge of trauma and psychology to write compelling and complex characters and stories.

Tessa Wegert is the author of the popular Shana Merchant mysteries, which include Death in the Family (a Book Riot Best Locked Room Mystery), The Dead Season(“Deliciously twisty”—Bookreporter), Dead Wind(Publishers Weekly starred review), The Kind to Kill(Strand Magazine Top 25 Mystery Novels of 2022), and the upcoming Devils at the Door. A former journalist, digital media strategist, and brand copywriter, Tessa’s work has appeared in Forbes, HuffPost, The Globe and Mail, and The Economist. She grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut, where she studies martial arts and is co-president of Sisters in Crime CT.

Prior to writing novels, Tessa was the first place winner in the Crime category of the Eighth Annual Writer’s Digest Magazine Popular Fiction Awards for her short story Moms’ Night Out. In addition to her work with Sisters in Crime Connecticut, she is a member of International Thriller Writers (ITW), Mystery Writers of America (MWA), Sisters in Crime New England, and Sisters in Crime New York, and is co-director of ITW PitchFest.