Long Island Noir (33 page)

T
IM
T
OMLINSON
was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island. He’s a cofounder of the New York Writers Workshop, and coauthor of its popular text,
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing
. He teaches in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies Program. His stories and poems have appeared in print and online in many venues, including the
Missouri Review, North American Review, Pank
, and
Underground Voices
, among others. He lives with his wife in New York City.

S
ARAH
W
EINMAN
has written for the
Wall Street Journal
, the
Los Angeles Times,
the
Washington Post,
and many other print and online publications. Her fiction has appeared in
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
,
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine,
and various anthologies, including
Baltimore Noir
and
Dublin Noir
. She lives in Brooklyn, just a mile away from the Atlantic Avenue LIRR hub.

K
ENNETH
W
ISHNIA’S
novels include
23 Shades of Black
, an Edgar and Anthony award finalist;
Soft Money
, a
Library Journal
Best Mystery of the Year;
Red House
, a
Washington Post Book World
“Rave” Book of the Year; and
The Fifth Servant,
a finalist for the Premio Letterario ADEI-WIZO. He thanks Michael and Mary Mart and SCCC students Vinny Bivona, Aaron Bryant, Lauren Pelisson, and Brian Ratkus for their comments on an early draft of this story.

S
TEVEN
W
ISHNIA
is the grandson of two illegal immigrants. He went to Ward Melville High School and Stony Brook University before escaping to New York and respected but marginally successful careers as a journalist and bass player. He is the author of
Exit 25 Utopia
and
The Cannabis Companion
. He recently completed a novel entitled
Very Bad When Drumming Stops
.