Cape Cod Noir

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS


JEDEDIAH BERRY’S first novel, The Manual of Detection (The Penguin Press, 2009), was awarded the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers, as well as the Crawford Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. His stories have appeared in journals and anthologies including Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Best American Fantasy, and Best New American Voices. Invaluable assistance on the story appearing in this book was provided by Marty Thomas.

DANA CAMERON’S first Anna Hoyt story, “Femme Sole” (in Boston Noir) was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity awards. Her story here, set in the 1740s, was inspired by research at Great Island and the village of Wellfleet, which was part of Eastham until 1763. Whether writing noir, historical fiction, urban fantasy, or traditional mystery, Cameron’s crime novels and short fiction draws on her expertise in New England archaeology. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.

ELYSSA EAST is the author of the Boston Globe best seller, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town. A New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, Dogtown won the 2010 L.L.Winship/PEN New England Award for best work of nonfiction and was named a “Must-Read Book” by the Massachusetts Book Awards. Her essays and reviews have been published in the New York Times, Philadelphia Enquirer, Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, and other publications nationwide.

SETH GREENLAND is a novelist and playwright. His novels include Shining City, The Bones, and the forthcoming The Angry Buddhist. His first play, Jungle Rot, was the recipient of the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund for New American Plays Award and the American Theatre Critics Association Award. His other produced plays include Jerusalem, Red Memories, and Girls in Movies. He first visited Cape Cod as a five-year-old.

BEN GREENMAN is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed books of fiction, including Superbad, Please Step Back, and What He’s Poised to Do. His most recent book is Celebrity Chekhov. He lives in Brooklyn.

WILLIAM HASTINGS is a graduate student in the Solstice low-residency creative writing MFA program of Pine Manor College. While living on the Cape he worked as a golf course maintenance man, a special needs teacher, a middle and high school English teacher, and as a full-time waiter and prep cook. Besides Cape Cod, he has also lived in upstate New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, the island of St. John, Denmark, Mexico, and Kuwait.

KAYLIE JONES is the author of the acclaimed memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me and the novels A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (which was released as a Merchant Ivory Film), Celeste Ascending, and Speak Now. She has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Washington Post, and others. Jones teaches at SUNY-Stony Brook’s Southampton College MFA Program in Writing, and in the low-residency MFA Program in Professional Writing at Wilkes University.

FRED G. LEEBRON is the program director of the MFA in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte and a Professor of English at Gettysburg College. His novels have been published by Knopf, Doubleday, and Harcourt, and his stories appear frequently in magazines such as Tin House, TriQuarterly, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere, and have been selected for both Pushcart and O.Henry prize anthologies.

ADAM MANSBACH’S novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the best-selling Angry Black White Boy. The 2010–11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University, his forthcoming projects include a graphic novel, Nature of the Beast, and a children’s book, Go the F*ck to Sleep.

LIZZIE SKURNICK is the author of Shelf Discovery, a memoir of teen reading. She writes on books and culture for the New York Times, the Daily Beast, Politics Daily, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, and many other publications. A former vice-president of the board of the National Book Critics Circle, she is also the author of a book of poetry, Check-In. She lives in Jersey City.

PAUL TREMBLAY is the author of the weird-boiled novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collection In the Mean Time. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales and Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy, Volume 3. He has coedited a number of anthologies and can beat any crime writer in a game of one-on-one basketball. He still has no uvula and lives somewhere south of Boston with his wife and two kids.

DAVID L. ULIN is book critic, and former book editor, of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time and The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Columbia Journalism Review, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. He has spent summers on Cape Cod for forty years.

DAVE ZELTSERMAN lives in the Boston area, and is the author of the “man out of prison” crime trilogy: Small Crimes, Pariah, and Killer. Small Crimes and Pariah were both picked by the Washington Post as best books of the year. His recent The Caretaker of Lorne Field was shortlisted by the ALA for Best Horror Novel of 2010. His latest, Outsourced, has been optioned by Impact Pictures and Constantin Film and is currently under development.