STEVEN HORWITZ has worked in publishing for twenty-five years. He lives with his wife and two dogs in St. Paul, Minnesota.
DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT is a former newspaper reporter and advertising copywriter, who was born, raised, educated, played hockey, discovered girls, and currently lives in St. Paul. He is the author of several Twin Cities–based novels, including Dearly Departed, A Hard Ticket Home, Pretty Girl Gone, Dead Boyfriends, Penance, which won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and Practice to Deceive, which earned the Minnesota Book Award.
WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER writes the award-winning Cork O’Connor mystery series set in Minnesota’s great Northwoods. With his wife and family, he lives in St. Paul, a wonderfully noir city that he dearly loves.
MARY LOGUE was born and bred in the Twin Cities. A poet and writer, she has strayed occasionally, but always manages to find her way back home. A new book of poetry, Meticulous Attachment, and a new Claire Watkins mystery, Poison Heart, were published in 2005. She lives with Pete Hautman on both sides of the Mississippi.
LARRY MILLETT is a Minneapolis native who spent much of his career as a writer, reporter, and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He is the author of four works of nonfiction, including Lost Twin Cities and Twin Cities Then and Now, as well as five mystery novels in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to turn-of-the- century Minnesota to solve cases at the behest of railroad tycoon James J. Hill. He currently lives with his wife and two children in St. Paul.
BRUCE RUBENSTEIN is a crime writer who grew up in the Twin Cities and knows a great deal about the events, places, and people upon which his tale is based. He’s written many crime stories, and recently published a book, Greed, Rage and Love Gone Wrong (University of Minnesota Press). His wife is his inspiration because of her constant demands for more money.
JULIE SCHAPER has been a Twin Cities resident for eleven years. She lives with her husband and two dogs in the Merriam Park neighborhood of St. Paul.
MARY SHARRATT grew up in the Twin Cities and currently lives in a dark satanic mill town in Lancashire, England. A Minnesota Book Award finalist and winner of the 2005 WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction, she is the author of the novels Summit Avenue, The Real Minerva, and The Vanishing Point, and coeditor of Bitchlit, a fiction anthology celebrating female antiheroes.
QUINTON SKINNER is the author of 14 Degrees Below Zero and Amnesia Nights. He lives with his family in Minneapolis.
STEVE THAYER is a New York Times best-selling author. His novels include Saint Mudd, The Weatherman, and The Wheat Field. He lives in Edina, Minnesota.
BRAD ZELLAR has lived in the Twin Cities for more than twenty years. He is a writer and editor for the Rake, a monthly magazine, and has a lousy relationship with sleep.
ALSO IN THE AKASHIC NOIR SERIES:
Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin
D.C. Noir, edited by George Pelecanos
Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block
Baltimore Noir, edited by Laura Lippman
Dublin Noir, edited by Ken Bruen
Chicago Noir, edited by Neal Pollack
San Francisco Noir, edited by Peter Maravelis
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Tim McLoughlin
Los Angeles Noir, edited by Denise Hamilton
London Noir, edited by Cathi Unsworth
Wall Street Noir, edited by Peter Spiegelman
Miami Noir, edited by Les Standiford
Havana Noir, edited by Achy Obejas
Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan
New Orleans Noir, edited by Julie Smith
