Mystery Tribune

Brendan DuBois is an American mystery fiction and suspense writer who he has twice won a Shamus Award for Best Short Story of the Year. He also had his short story “The Dark Snow’” published in Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, edited by Otto Penzler and Tony Hillerman. Mr. DuBois is also Co-author of three novels with James Patterson including NY Times Bestselling The Cornwalls Are Gone. Dennis McFadden’s fiction has been featured in The Best American Mystery Stories 4 times. In 2018, he was awarded a Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he recently served as guest short fiction editor at Prime Number Magazine, and is currently the judge for PNM’s Short Fiction Award. Robert Pope has published a novel, Jack’s Universe, as well two collections of stories, Private Acts and Killers & Others (2020) and a chapbook of flash fiction, Shutterbug. He has also published stories and essays in journals, including The Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Fiction International, and anthologies, including Pushcart Prize and Dark Lane Anthology. Charles Cline is a writer, filmmaker, and educator. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia. Davin Ireland recently returned to the south of England after spending three decades in his favorite city of Utrecht. His fiction credits include stories published in over seventy print magazines, webzines and anthologies worldwide including Aeon, Underworlds, Albedo One, Grift Magazine, and The Horror Express among others. Andrew Riconda’s fiction has appeared in The Amherst Review, Crimespree Magazine, Criminal Class Review (Vols. 3 & 6), Manslaughter Review (Vols. 1 & 2), Oyez Review, and Phantasmagoria among others. His fiction has been included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2011. Kevin Egan is the author of eight novels, including MIDNIGHT, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Tribune. Steve Loiaconi is a journalist and a graduate of George Mason University’s MFA program. His fiction previously appeared in Griffel, True Chili, the Good Life Review, East by Northeast, and River River, and the New Plains Review. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and son. Matthew Mercier’s work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Rosebud Magazine, Creative Non-Fiction, The Fairy Tale Review, Shotgun Honey, and Mystery Tribune. He was awarded the Leon B. Burstein scholarship for Mystery Writing from the New York chapter of Mystery Writers of America in order to complete his first novel which is loosely based on his former job as caretaker for the last home of Edgar Allan Poe in the Bronx. Erica Wright’s essay collection Snake was recently released as part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. Her latest crime novel Famous in Cedarville received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. She is the author of three previous novels including The Red Chameleon, which was one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of Summer 2014. Her poetry collections are Instructions for Killing the Jackal and All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She was the senior poetry editor at Guernica Magazine for more than a decade. Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which the New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Alex is also the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series, and a number of comic books—including The Mysterious Micro-Face (in partnership with NPR), The Black Ghost, The Archies, The Dusk, The Awakened, and more. His short story, “90 Miles” was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories for 2021 and won the Anthony Award for Best Short Story. Christopher McGinley lives in Lexington, Kentucky where he writes crime fiction set in the hills of Appalachia and teaches middle school social studies and English. His story “Hellbenders” made the “Other Distinguished Stories of 2018” list in Best American Mystery Stories of 2019. His work has appeared in Mystery Tribune, Mystery Weekly, Tough, Pulp Modern, Switchblade among others. In 2019, he published a book of crime stories titled COAL BACK by Shotgun Honey Books. Scott Adlerberg has written about crime fiction for CrimeReads, Criminal Element, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His books include the psychological suspense novel Graveyard Love (2016) and the historical thriller Jack Waters, (2018). He lives in Brooklyn, NY.