Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth (28 page)

D
ENNIS
H
AWKINS
, formerly Chief of Rackets, retired from the Brooklyn district attorney’s office on April 1, 2001. Since then he has taught, written, and circumnavigated the globe as an anticorruption advisor. He is currently working on a novel about the down and dirty office politics of a large, urban prosecutor’s office.

R
OBERT
K
NIGHTLY
spent his youth in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, leaving for Manhattan at the tender age of forty-four. During his Brooklyn years, he was an NYPD patrol officer and sergeant in the Brooklyn North neighborhoods of Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Greene–Clinton Hill, and Williamsburg. He has published three stories in the Akashic Noir Series, one of which was selected for
Best American Mystery
Stories 2007.

J
ESS
K
ORMAN
grew up in Brooklyn and left at age twelve. He later wrote plays for off-Broadway and regional theater, comedy for TV shows, and he did time as a creative director on Madison Avenue. His pieces have appeared in
National
Lampoon
and other publications. His one-man shows as a satirical singer-songwriter-pianist are often performed in Greenwich Village.

R
OBERT
L
EUCI
worked for twenty years as an NYPD detective assigned to narcotics and organized crime. Many of those years were spent working the streets of Brooklyn. Since retirement, he has published six novels and one memoir, as well as various TV scripts, book reviews, and magazine pieces. Leuci is currently an adjunct professor in the English department of the University of Rhode Island.

E
RROL
L
OUIS
has been a columnist for the
New York Daily
News
since June 2004. He lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife, Juanita Scarlett, and their son, Noah Louis. His father, Edward Louis, is a retired NYPD inspector whose assignments included a stint as commanding officer of the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville.

T
IM
M
C
L
OUGHLIN
is the editor of the multiple–award winning anthology
Brooklyn Noir
and its companion volume,
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics
. His novel,
Heart of the Old Country
, won Italy’s Premio Penne award and is the basis for the Serenade Films motion picture
The Narrows
. His short fiction and essays have appeared in
Confrontation, A Public Space
, and the
Brooklyn Rail
, as well as the anthologies
The Subway Chronicles,
New Orleans Noir,
and
Best American Mystery Stories 2005.

P
ATRICIA
M
ULCAHY
has lived in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for almost twenty years, and has owned the coffee bar and arts space Tillie’s of Brooklyn in Fort Greene since 1997. A former book publisher, she edited crime writers such as Michael Connelly and James Lee Burke. She now operates an editorial consulting company called Brooklyn Books, and is at work on a novel.

C
HRISTOPHER
M
USELLA
has been living and writing in Brooklyn with his wife Anne (and now their daughter Gianna) for more than twelve years.

C.J.S
ULLIVAN
has worked as an associate court clerk in the Brooklyn Supreme Court since 1994. He is also a crime reporter for the
New York Post
and the author of
Wild Tales from
the Police Blotter.

K
IM
S
YKES
is an actress and writer who regrets not living in Brooklyn. She is also a contributor to
Queens Noir
and is at work on her first novel.

R
OSEMARIE
Y
U
is a New York–based writer. She is a former legal journalist and a graduate of the New York University School of Law.

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