MWA-NY Crime Fiction Reading Series December 10
Tue Dec 10, 7:00 PM - Tue Dec 10, 9:00 PM

Join the Mystery Writers of America, New York Chapter, for another thrilling night of chilling crime fiction read by our talented members! Save the date.

Ann Aptaker

Ann Aptaker’s Cantor Gold novels have won the Lambda Literary and Goldie awards. Her short stories have appeared in the Fedora II and III anthologies, Switchblade magazine, and the online zine Punk Soul Poet. Her short story “Red Nocturne” has been accepted for the 2020 Mickey Finn anthology from Wildside Press. Her novella, “A Taco, A T-Bird and a Baretta” is scheduled for publication by Down & Out Books in 2020. When not writing crime and mystery fiction, Ann is a professor of Art History at New York Institute of Technology.

Rona Bell

Rona Bell is the pen name of a well-known New York business executive. She has published (under other pen names) in the North American Review, the Akashic Books Mondays are Murder series, as well as such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Business Insider. Her most recent piece, “Spies on the Street,” appeared in the Summer 2018 edition of Mystery Readers International. Her short story, “Prey of New York,” was included in the anthology Where Crime Never Sleeps: Murder New York Style 4 and listed in Otto Penzler’s Best American Mystery Stories 2018. Rona is a graduate of the University of Rochester, received a graduate degree from the University of Michigan, and is proud to have studied with Jonathan Santlofer at the Crime Fiction Academy. She has always been interested in the concept of opposites and the possibilities for story between those two extremes.

Gary Cahill

Gary Cahill is an active member of Irish American Writers and Artists as well as MWA-NY. His first crime short story, "That Kind Of Guy", was featured under the hard-edged "Black Mask" banner in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Subsequent work has appeared in print, online, e-book and audio versions with Short Story Me, Pulp Empire, The First Line Literary Journal, Mystery Weekly Magazine, Pulp Magazine's "Kennedy Curse" anthology, the first three volumes, audio podcast, and omnibus print collection from the lamented Plan B Magazine, the fabulous Shotgun Honey, and others. After working 23 years for a music