BIOGRAPHY -- 180 words

Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of six Hannah Ives mysteries, including THIS ENEMY TOWN and THROUGH THE DARKNESS, all set in Maryland. She is author/editor of two star-studded collaborative serial novels, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT set in a fashionable health spa and an exclusive gated community, respectively. Her short stories appear in more than a dozen collections including “With Love, Marjorie Ann” and “Safety First”, both Agatha award nominees, and the multi-award-winning “Too Many Cooks”, a humorous retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth from the viewpoint of the three witches from Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry. A recent story, “Driven to Distraction” won the Agatha Award, was nominated for an Anthony, and has been selected for reprint in two major collections including "The Deadly Bride and 21 of the World's Best Crime and Mystery Stories."

Marcia is secretary of Sisters in Crime National, and serves on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband, Barry, who recently retired after 35 years as head of the music department at the U.S. Naval Academy. When she is not writing, she spends her time traveling or sailing.

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Last updated: 23 Mar h 2007