Michael Bracken
Newberry Crime Writing Workshop Instructor
Bio:
MICHAEL BRACKEN is an Edgar Award and Shamus Award nominee and three-time Derringer Award winner. Author of almost thirteen hundred short stories, his crime fiction has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, and many other publications. Additionally, Bracken is the editor of Black Cat Mystery Magazine and three-dozen anthologies, including the Anthony Award-nominated The Eyes of Texas; with Barb Goffman, the Derringer Award-winning and Anthony Award-nominated Murder, Neat; and, with Stacy Woodson, the Anthony Award-nominated Scattered, Smothered, Covered, and Chunked. He is a recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement and, in 2024, was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his contributions to Texas literature. www.CrimeFictionWriter.com
