Vinnie Hansen
Contact: vinnie@vinniehansen.com
Murder, Honey, One Tough Cookie, Rotten Dates, Squeezed & Juiced, Death with Dessert, Art, Wine, & Bullets, Black Beans & Venom, One Gun, Lostart Street
Carol Sabala Mystery Series
Detective, Suspense
Vinnie has over sixty published short stories, too many to list here.
Craft
Vinnie Hansen's public speaking experience includes participating on numerous panels at libraries and conferences such as Bouchercon, Killer Nashville, and Left Coast Crime. Vinnie has given a Facebook Live presentation for MWA on short story that has garnered over 600 views. She's spoken to the AAUW, Soroptimists, and Mechanics Library and is known as an entertaining reader.
Still sane(ish) after 27 years of teaching high school English, Vinnie Hansen has retired and plays keyboards with ukulele groups in Santa Cruz, California, where she lives with her husband and the requisite cat. She also writes fiction. A Claymore and a Silver Falchion finalist, Vinnie is the author of the Carol Sabala mystery series, the novels LOSTART STREET and ONE GUN, as well as over sixty published short works. Level Best Books will re-issue ONE GUN in 2024 and publish her new suspense novel, CRIME WRITER, in 2025.