Joyce Yarrow
Seattle
Washington USAContact: www.joyceyarrow.comPen Name(s): Joyce Yarrow
Washington USAContact: www.joyceyarrow.comPen Name(s): Joyce Yarrow
Ask the Dead, Russian Reckoning, Rivers Run Back, Zahara and the Lost Books of Light, Sandstorm, Stolen Lives
The Zahara Series
Historical, Private Investigator, Psychological Suspense, Suspense, Thriller
Craft, Subject Expertise
Presentations include "The Place of Place in Mystery Writing" and "In Search of Convivencia."
Joyce Yarrow is an award-winning author of literary novels of suspense that, according to Library Journal, “appeal to readers who enjoy unusual mysteries with an international setting.” Her coming-of-age novel SANDSTORM, won a the 2022 gold medal in Women's Fiction at the CIPA/Evvy Awards and her historical thriller, ZAHARA AND THE LOST BOOKS OF LIGHT, has been awarded 5 Stars by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and translated into Spanish and Portuguese. A New York City transplant now living in Seattle, Yarrow began her writing life scribbling poems on the subway and observing human behavior from every walk of life. She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee with short stories and essays that have appeared in Inkwell Journal, Whistling Shade, Descant, Arabesques, and Weber: The Contemporary West and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Yarrow has presented workshops on “The Place of Place in Mystery Writing” at conferences in the US and India.