Melanie Rehak is a critic and poet whose essays have appeared in the
New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Real Simple, Salon.com,
The Nation and other publications. Her poetry has been published in
The New Yorker and
The Paris Review, and she is also the assistant poetry editor of
The New Republic. She has held fellowships at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in Brooklyn.
Girl Sleuth is her first book.
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Denise Hamilton writes the Eve Diamond series. Her books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony and Willa Cather awards. Her debut
The Jasmine Trade was also a finalist for the prestigious Creasey Dagger Award given by the UK Crime Writers Assn. Hamilton's books have been BookSense 76 picks and Mystery Guild alternate selections.
The Los Angeles Times named
Last Lullaby a "Best Book of 2004" and it was also a USA Today Summer Pick and a finalist for a Southern California Booksellers Association 2004 award. Her fourth Eve Diamond novel,
Savage Garden, is an L.A. Times Bestseller and a finalist for the Southern California Booksellers Assn 2005 award for "best mystery."
Prior to writing novels, Hamilton was a Los Angeles Times staff writer. Her award-winning stories have also appeared in
Wired, Cosmopolitan, Der Spiegel and
New Times. During the Bosnian War, Hamilton lived and taught in Yugoslavia as a Fulbright Scholar.
www.denisehamilton.com
