S.J. ROZAN, author of Absent Friends and the Edgar Award-winning Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery series, grew up in the Bronx. Having misspent her youth in lower Manhattan, she always wanted to live there, and now she does.
JUSTIN SCOTT was born on West 76th Street between Riverside and West End, grew up in a small town, and came back to Manhattan to write mysteries, thrillers, and the occasional short story in Midtown, the Upper West Side, the Village, and Chelsea. Twice nominated for Edgar Awards, his New York stories include Many Happy Returns, Treasure for Treasure, Normandie Triangle, and Rampage.
C.J. SULLIVAN grew up in the Bronx and is currently a reporter for the New York Post. Along with writing, the loves of his life are his two children, Luisa Marie and Olivia Kathleen Sullivan.
XU XI is the author of six books, including the novel The Unwalled City and Overleaf Hong Kong (stories and essays), and has edited two anthologies of Hong Kong literature.
She teaches at Vermont College’s MFA program, and lives and writes primarily between Manhattan, upstate New York, Hong Kong, and the South Island of New Zealand. For more information, visit www.xuxiwriter.com.
