Mary Anna Evans is an award-winning author who spent more than a decade as a writing professor. She is the author of the Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries, the Justine Byrne WWII mysteries, standalones WOUNDED EARTH and THE DARK LIBRARY, and she co-edited the Edgar-nominated BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK TO AGATHA CHRISTIE with JC Bernthal. Her crime fiction has earned recognition that includes the Oklahoma Book Award, the Will Rogers Medallion Awards Gold Medal, the Mississippi Author Award, a spot on Voice of Young America's (VOYA) list of "Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal," a writer's residency from The Studios of Key West, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Florida Historical Society's Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Award, and three Florida Book Awards bronze medals.