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Tim Wohlforth's
The Pink Tarantula,
a short story collection, was published in April 2011 by Perfect Crime Books. His thriller
Harry,
which deals with eco-terrorism and is set in the Northwest, came out in May 2010. Over seventy-five short stories have been published. These appeared in
Hardcore Hardboiled
(Kensington), MWA's
Death Do Us Part,
(Little Brown),
Plots With Guns
(Dennis McMillan) and other anthologies. Two of his stories have made the “Distinguished Mystery Stories” list in Otto Penzler's Best American Mystery series. He is a Pushcart Prize Nominee and received a Certificate of Excellence from the Dana Literary Society.

Raised in the desert southwest of Tucson, Arizona,
Andrea Gibbons
moved to Los Angeles at twenty-one to spend ten years organizing around land, development and immigration issues. Leaving L.A., she found a new world of energy, love and rage to pour into her writing, fiction and nonfiction. She is currently melding theory and practice at the London School of Economics, editing for PM Press and the journal
City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action,
and fighting the good fight against the government cuts in South London.

Son of a mechanic and a librarian,
Gary Phillips
draws on his experiences ranging from labor organizer to delivering dog cages in writing his tales of chicanery and malfeasance. He has been nominated for a Shamus, and has won a Chester Himes and a Brody for his writing. Do visit his website at:
www.gdphillips.com
.

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