Queens Noir (43 page)

JOSEPH GUGLIELMELLI grew up in Jackson Heights,
Queens. He cultivated his love of mysteries by reading golden
age classics found while browsing in tiny bookstores in the
shadow of the elevated tracks of the 7 train. For the past thirteen years, Joe has been coowner of the Black Orchid Bookshop, which was the 2006 recipient of the Raven Award given
by Mystery Writers ofAmerica.

DENIS HAMILL writes a column about Queens for the New
York Daily News and has written ten novels, including, Fork in
the Road, recently purchased by Alexander Payne's company
for a feature film from Fox Searchlight. He lives in Queens.

PATRICIA KING is the author of four books on business subjects, including Never Work for a, jerk. Her forthcoming book-
7he Monster in the Corner Ofice-will be published in 2008.

ROBERT KNIGHTLY moved to Jackson Heights in 1995 and
works as a Legal Aid criminal defense lawyer in the Queens
courts. As a teenager, he dug graves one summer in First Calvary Cemetery in Blissville, where he set his story for this volume. His short story "Take the Man's Pay," from Akashic's
Manhattan Noir, was selected for inclusion in The BestAmeri-
can Mystery Stories 2007. As an NYPD officer and sergeant he
patrolled Brooklyn and Manhattan for twenty years.

GLENVILLE LOVELL has published four novels: Fire in the
Canes, Song ofNight, Too Beautiful to Die, and Love and Death
in Brooklyn. His stories haved appeared in Conjunctions, Shades
ofBlack, Wanderlust.- Erotic Travel Tales, and Hardboiled Brooklyn.
For more information, visit www.glenvillelovell.com

LIZ MARTINEZ has lived in Woodside, Queens, for the
past fifteen years. She is currently collaborating on a mystery
anthology with fellow award-winning Mexican-American
writer Sarah Cortez. "Lights Out for Frankie" was inspired
by an organized retail crime case solved by legendary police
detectives Eric Hernando and Sergeant Louie Torres of the
Holmdel, New Jersey police department.

STEPHEN SOLOMITA is the author of sixteen novels. He
was born and raised in Bayside, Queens, not far from College
Point, the setting for "CrazyJill Saves the Slinky."

KIM SYKES is an actress and writer who lives in New York
City. She frequently works at Silvercup Studios.

K.J.A. WISHNIA'S first novel featuring Ecuadorian-American
P.I. Filomena Buscarsela, 23 Shades of Black, was a finalist for
both Edgar and Anthony Awards, and was followed by four
other novels, including Soft Money and Red House. He lived
in Ecuador for several years, and taught English at Queens
College, CUNY. Wishnia gives special thanks to his students
at Suffolk Community College, especially Victor Nieves, for
providing him with the authentic ghetto phraseology.