Indian Country Noir (Akashic Noir) (36 page)

DAVID COLE has published seven mystery novels set in
southern Arizona, dealing largely with problems facing Native
Americans and illegal immigrants. His next fiction project, set
in Tucson, involves Mexican drug cartels and home invasions.
He is also collecting real-life personal stories from women in
all phases of law enforcement for a nonfiction book.

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REED FARREL COLEMAN is the former executive vicepresident of Mystery Writers of America and has published
ten novels-two under his pen name Tony Spinosa-in three
series. His eleventh novel, Tower, cowritten with awardwinning Irish author Ken Bruen, was released in 2009. Reed
has been nominated for two Edgar Awards and has been the
recipient of three Shamus Awards. He is also an adjunct professor in creative writing at Hofstra University.

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SARAH CORTEZ is the author of the acclaimed poetry
collection How to Undress a Cop. Winner of the 1999 PEN
Texas Literary Award in poetry, she has edited Urban-Speak:
Poetry of the City and Windows into My World: Latino Youth
Write 7heirLives, which won the 2008 Skipping Stones Honor
Award. She also coedited, with Liz Martinez, HitList: The Best
ofLatino Mystery. Cortez has been a police officer since 1993.
Her blood is Spanish, Mexican, French, and Comanche.

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O'NEIL DE Noux was born in New Orleans. He writes
in multiple genres and has published five novels and six short
story collections. His story "The Heart Has Reasons" won a
Shamus Award in 2007, and his story "Too Wise"won a Derringer Award in 2009. He received the Artist Services Career
Advancement Award for 2009-10 from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for work on his forthcoming historical novel
set during the Battle of New Orleans.

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A.A. HEDGECOKE holds the Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair of Poetry and Writing at the University of Nebraska, Kearney. Her books include
Dog Road Woman-winner of the American Book AwardOff-Season City Pipe, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, and Blood Run.
HedgeCoke is from Huron and Cherokee heritage.

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GERARD HOUARNER lives in the Bronx and works at a
psychiatric institution. He has published hundreds of short
stories, several novels and story collections, and has edited two
anthologies. His most recent books include the story collections The Oz Suite and A Blood of Killers and the novel Road
from Hell.

LIZ MARTINEZ is of Guachichil (Mexican Indian) heritage.
She is a recognized medicine woman and ordained clergy in
a Native American church. She combines her spiritual mediumship abilities with her experience as a New York State investigator to assist individuals and police as a forensic psychic.
With Sarah Cortez, she has edited the mystery anthology Hit
List.•7he Best ofLatino Mystery, and is the author of numerous
short stories.

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R. NARVAEZ was born and raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, of Puerto Rican parents with Taino ancestry. His work
has been published in Mississippi Review, Murdaland, Thrilling Detective, and in the anthology Hit List: The Best ofLatino
Mystery. He is coeditor of The Lineup crime poetry chapbook
series.

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KIMBERLY ROPPOLO, of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek
descent, is a visiting assistant professor of Native Studies at
the University of Oklahoma and the national director of the
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She won
the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award
for Prose 2004 for Back to the Blanket.- Reading, Writing, and
Resistance forAmerican Indian Literary Critics.

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LEONARD SCHONBERG, who died of lung cancer in 2008,
has had five novels published by Sunstone Press: Deadly Indian
Summer, Fish Heads, Legacy, Morgen's War and Blackfeet Eyes.
Schonberg has also had articles published in Boston Magazine,
Yankee Magazine, and Medical Economics.

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MELISSAYIworks as an emergency room physician in Cornwall, Ontario. Her award-winning short stories have appeared
in fine venues such as Nature, Weird Tales, and Open Space: A
Canadian Anthology of Fantastic Fiction under the name Melissa Yuan-Innes. She also writes for the Medical Post.