Nev March
Nev March, President of the NY Chapter, is the first Indian-born author to receive the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Award for Best First Crime Fiction. Her debut novel, Murder in Old Bombay, won an Audiofile award and was an Edgar and Anthony finalist. The New York Times listed it as one of the “best crime novels of 2020.” Nev’s historical mystery series deals with issues of identity, race, and moral boundaries. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University’s Osher Institute and enjoys writing novels and screenplays. Reach her at http://www.nevmarch.com
Hal Glatzer
Our VP, Hal Glatzer, is a novelist, playwright, and performer in New York. His latest novel, The Nest, is a modern-day cozy that breaks some conventions of the genre. But he’s best known for writing historicals. His Katy Green mysteries are set in the years just before World War II, and his Sherlock Holmes pastiches are set, authentically, in Victorian/Edwardian times. When Glatzer is not working as an author, he’s working as a musician, playing guitar and singing the “Great American Songbook” from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway. His site is www.halglatzer.com. Email at info@halglatzer.com
Gary Earl Ross
University at Buffalo professor emeritus Gary Earl Ross is a novelist and playwright. His books include the story collections Wheel of Desire, Shimmerville, and Beneath the Ice, the novel Blackbird Rising, and the Gideon Rimes mysteries Nickel City Blues, Nickel City Crossfire, Nickel City Storm Warning, Nickel City Naked Lady, and the forthcoming Nickel City Monsters. His plays include Picture Perfect, Split Wit, Scavenger’s Daughter, Mark of Cain, Guns of Christmas, The Trial of Trayvon Martin, Stoker’s Guest, and Matter of Intent, winner of the 2006 Edgar Award. He lives in Buffalo, nicknamed Nickel City after the bison head nickel. www.garyearlross.net
Daniella Bernett
Daniella Bernett has been a member of MWA since 2012. She also is a member of the International Thriller Writers and the Crime Writers Association. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in journalism from St. John’s University. She is the author of the Emmeline Kirby-Gregory Longdon mystery series featuring a journalist and a jewel thief who are a magnet for murder, intrigue, and espionage. Daniella has served as a panelist at ITW’s ThrillerFest conference and for MWA. She also is the author of two poetry collections, Timeless Allure and Silken Reflections. Visit www.daniellabernett.com or follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008802318282 or on
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/40690254-daniella-bernett.
Mark McNease
MWA-NY Board Member Mark McNease is the author of fifteen novels, including the Kyle Callahan mysteries, the Maggie Dahl mysteries, and the Marshall James thrillers. He also writes in the horror and supernatural genres as M. A. McNease. He is a two-time Emmy winner as the cocreator and original writer for the children’s television program Into the Outdoors. He currently lives in rural New Jersey with his husband and surrounding wildlife. MarkMcNease.com More links at Linktree! Also Now on Substack.
Elizabeth Mannion
Elizabeth Mannion is the board’s liaison for book fairs and festivals; she’s looking forward to our having a presence at as many as possible in 2024. She is the coeditor of Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction, editor of The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel, and author of The Urban Plays of the Abbey Theatre. Her research in crime fiction and drama has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and been the focus of lectures and panel discussions in the United States and further afield. She currently reviews crime fiction for the Irish Times. She is on Insta @emannion2.
David Bushman
David Bushman is the author of five traditionally published nonfiction books, including two on true crime: Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery that Inspired Twin Peaks (2022, Thomas + Mercer) and Forget It, Jake, It’s Schenectady: The True Story Behind ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023). He was a television curator at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of TV + Radio) for over two decades. Prior to that he was program director at TV Land and TV editor at Variety.
Doug Harrell
Doug Harrell has always loved mysteries, and long dreamed of writing them. Now, after a thirty-two-year career as a chemical engineer, he’s finally doing it.. He’s a lifelong resident of the greater Philadelphia area, with a two-year detour to Ferrara, Italy. Doug is a member of MWA and Sisters in Crime, for which he writes the “Mystery in History” column for the Guppies quarterly newsletter, “First Draft.” Six of his short stories have appeared in contest anthologies published by Cat & Mouse Press (one receiving a judge’s award). He has recently completed his first novel, The Secret Lindbergh Notebook, and is currently seeking representation.
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Al Tucher
Albert Tucher is the creator of suburban sex worker Diana Andrews, who has appeared in more than one hundred stories in venues including The Best American Mystery Stories 2010. Her first longer case, the novella The Same Mistake Twice, was published in 2013. In 2017, Albert launched a second series, set on the Big Island of Hawaii, in which Pele’s Prerogative will be the most recent entry. He is a past president of MWA-NY.