Margot Douaihy is Associate Professor at Emerson College, and earned her PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She is the author of the forthcoming novels—Scorched Grace and Blessed Water—the inaugural crime fiction series for Gillian Flynn Books. She authored the collections Scranton Lace and Girls Like You, and the true-crime poetry project Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr (Clemson University Press, 2022). She is a Founding Member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and an active member of Sisters in Crime and the Radius of Arab American Writers. A recipient of the 2019 Sisters in Crime Academic Research Grant and the 2021 Mass Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship, she was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Writing Award, and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation’s Hemingway Shorts. Her writing has been featured in Queer Life, Queer Love; Colorado Review; Diode Editions; The Florida Review; Mystery Tribune; North American Review; PBS NewsHour; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Portland Review; Wisconsin Review; and elsewhere. She teaches Creative Writing at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH, where she also serves as the editor of the Northern New England Review. She has presented her creative, critical and multimodal work at global conferences, most recently the Brave New Literatures Festival of Interdisciplinary Literature.
Catherine
Ross Nickerson earned
her PhD in American Studies from Yale University is Associate Professor in the
Department of English at Emory University. Her monograph, The Web of
Iniquity, Early Detective Fiction by American Women (Duke University Press,
1999), was nominated
for the Edgar
Award by the Mystery Writers of America. She has edited two volumes of early
detective fiction by Anna Katharine Green and Metta Fuller Victor, also for
Duke University Press, and the Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction
(2010). She received the George Dove Award for lifetime Achievement in
Crime Fiction Studies from the American Popular Culture Association. She has
presented her work at national and international conferences, most recently at
the American Literature Association, The American Studies Association, and Noir
in the North (Reykjavik, Iceland). She teaches a wide array of courses in
American literature and culture at the graduate and undergraduate level,
including crime fiction studies, transatlantic gothic, Asian American
literature, and the history of childhood.
Henry Sutton, is Professor of Creative Writing and Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia and the convenor of the Creative Writing MA Crime Fiction. He is the author of 15 novels and a collection of short stories, including My Criminal World, Kids’ Stuff (which was adapted for the stage, and received an Arts Council Writer’s Award), First Frost (co-written under the pseudonym James Henry) and Get Me Out Of Here. The first book in his new series, Der Hotel-Inspektor, was published in 2021 in German, by Kampa, Zurich. His latest novel in English, Good Dark Night, was published by Little, Brown in 2019 (under the pseudonym Harry Brett), and is the third in The Goodwin crime family series. He also co-edited, with Dr Laura Joyce, a collection of essays, Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He is currently completing a monograph for Manchester University Press, The Mystery of Crime Fiction. He has been a literary critic for many years and has judged numerous awards, including the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. He is a The Folio Prize academician. In 2008 he was appointed UEA Creative Writing Fellow. He has taught Creative Writing at all undergraduate and graduate levels at UEA, and supervises Creative/Critical PhDs. He is the co-founder of the 'Noirwich Crime Writing Festival', and led UEA’s Future and Form of Literature project.
Advisory Board
William Black (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Christopher Breu (Illinois State University, USA)
Cathy Cole (Liverpool John Moores, UK, Wollongong, Australia)
Stacy Gillis (Newcastle University, UK)
Femi Kayode, Author (Namibia)
Andrew Pepper (Belfast University, UK)
Barbara Pezzotti (Monash University, Australia)
Richie Narvaez (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA)
Clare Rolens (Palomar College, USA)
Shampa Roy (University of Delhi, India)
David Schmid (University of Buffalo, USA)
Samantha Walton (Bath Spa University, UK)
Aliki Varvogli (University of Dundee, Scotland/UK)