Susanna Calkins

Photo by Lisa Bagadia

Educator, historian, faculty developer by day... writer by night...

I've had a morbid curiosity about murder in seventeenth-century England ever since grad school, in those days before I earned my Ph.D. in history.   The ephemera from the archives--tantalizing true accounts of the fantastic and the strange--inspired my historical mysteries.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, I live outside Chicago now, with my husband and two sons. Represented by David Hale Smith of Inkwell Management, my first novel, A Murder at Rosamund's Gate (Minotaur/ St.Martin's Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the Sue Feder Historical Mystery (Macavity) Award. My second novel, From the Charred Remains (Minotaur/St. Martin's Press), was shortlisted for a Lovey and recently nominated for the LCC Bruce Alexander Historical Mystery Award.   My third novel, The Masque of a Murderer, will be released in April 2015.

Workshops, Book Clubs, Other Author Events: Please contact me if you are interested in having me speak to your group. I have an extensive background in teaching and public speaking, and I have run many workshops (especially around writing historical fiction and mysteries). I also love speaking at libraries and to book clubs!

Thanks for visiting my website! Feel free to comment on my blog, e-mail me at s (dot) calkins (dot)nu (at) gmail (dot) com , "like" my author page on facebook (www (dot) facebook (dot) com (slash) authorSusannaCalkins) or find me on Twitter (at) scalkins3.

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