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Nev March
Nev March is the first Indian-born author to receive the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Award for Best First Crime Fiction. Her debut novel, “Murder in Old Bombay” is nominated for an Edgar Award as well as a Barry and Hammett Award for Excellence in Crime Fiction.
She has appeared in radio and podcast interviews, including NPR, and been featured in Mystery Tribune, Mystery Scene Magazine, CrimeReads, The History Reader and other publications. “Murder in Old Bombay” was selected as Amazon’s Editor’s Pick. The New York Times listed it as one of the “Best crime novels of 2020.”
After a long career in business analysis, she returned to her passion of writing fiction and now teaches creative writing at the Rutgers-Osher Institute. A Parsee Zoroastrian, Nev lives in New Jersey with her husband and sons.
Pat Gallant Weich
Pat Gallant Weich is a fourth generation native New Yorker, widow, and mother of a son. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Saturday Evening Post, Writer’s Digest, Vocabula Review, Mystery Scene Magazine, Games Magazine, Cup of Comfort for Christmas, Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul, etc. Her literary nonfiction can be found in Christmas Traditions (Adams Media/F & W Publications); A Cup of Comfort for the Grieving Heart; Migraine Expressions; Outrider Press; The Simple Pleasures of Friendship; Letters to My Mother; A Cup of Comfort for Writers, etc.
Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies, most recently in Riverside Poets. Her essay, “So long lives This,” is presented in Mystery Writers of America’s “How to Write a Mystery,” edited by Lee Child, with Laurie R. King. More of her work is slated to appear in several anthologies with projected release dates through 2022.
Ms. Gallant Weich was a finalist in the 1991 PEN Syndicated Fiction Project and has won the New Century Writer’s Award in 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2003. Her poem, “The Rain I Use to Love,” was up for the Grand Prize in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom Literary competition in 2018. She has been a contender for the Grand Prize many times and a finalist each year for the last 21 years.