Board Members 2025

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

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.

Albert 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. 

Doug Harrell

Doug Harrell is a writer living in Wilmington, Delaware. His primary interest is mystery and suspense, but he occasionally writes in other genres (such as “Delaware Beach Fiction!”). He is an active and current board member of Mystery Writers of America, NY, and Sisters in Crime.

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.

Carol Binkowski

Carol Binkowski has loved mysteries ever since discovering Nancy Drew. She now writes her own under the pen name Caryl Janis. A relative newcomer to mystery writing, her first, To Sketch a Killer, and her latest, Research Can Be Murder (Amazon.com: Research Can Be Murder: 9781509254477), are both urban cozies set in Manhattan and the surrounding areas. A freelance musician, she is also the author of nonfiction books about music and history. You can find her online at: www.caroljbinkowski.com and www.caryljanis.com.

Lev Rosen

Lev Rosen writes books for people of all ages, including the Evander Mills series, which began with the Macavity Award-winning Lavender House (Anthony finalist, Lambda finalist, Best Book of the Year from Buzzfeed, Library Journal, Amazon, Bookpage, and others) and continues with The Bell in the Fog, (Publisher’s Weekly Editor’s Choice, Best Book of the Year from Amazon, CrimeReads, and Autostraddle) and Rough Pages (Amazon editor’s choice, Autostraddle Best of the Year). His most recent YA novels are Emmett (Best Book of the Year from Kirkus and Amazon), Lion’s Legacy (Best Book of the Year from Booklist and the New York Public Library), and Camp (Best Book of the Year from Forbes, Elle, the Today show, and others). Out in 2025: the second Tennessee Russo adventure, King’s Legacy; the fourth Evander Mills mystery, Mirage City; and another YA rom-com, You’ve Goth My Heart. He is a born-and-raised New Yorker who still lives in NYC with his husband and a very small cat. You can find him online at LevACRosen.com and @LevACRosen. 

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