Anthologies

Short Stories

Watching the Detectives All Big Men Are Dreamers Land of the Flowers A Singularly Unsuitable Word Low Budget Monster Flick! Twin Set Starch An Experimental Study: Cleaving the Bond Between A Physicist and An Engineering School Dropout

Topics

Craft, Subject Expertise, The Business of Writing

Public Speaking Details

Mary Anna Evans has twenty years of experience in teaching writing workshops and speaking to book lovers. She is a tenured professor of creative writing at the University of Oklahoma, where she has taught fiction and nonfiction writing for ten years. She holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English literature with special research interests in women's writing, twentieth-century fiction, and crime fiction. She co-edited the BLOOMSBURY GUIDE TO AGATHA CHRISTIE, nominated for the Agatha, Macavity, and HRF Keating Awards, and her speaking topics include crime fiction, Agatha Christie, fiction writing, and creative nonfiction writing. A former member of the Sisters in Crime Speakers Bureau, she lives in the NYC area and is available to travel for speaking engagements.

Biography

Mary Anna Evans is an award-winning author and a writing professor, and she holds degrees in physics and engineering, a background that, as it turns out, is ideal for writing her new series, the Justine Byrne historical mysteries. Her current book, THE TRAITOR BESIDE HER, takes Justine undercover in a Washington, DC code-breaking operation during World War II. Justine’s assignment? To find a spy endangering many, many lives as the Battle of the Bulge unfolds. The first book in the series, the Oklahoma Book Award-winning THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER, is named for Justine, whose physicist parents taught her things girls weren’t expected to know in 1944. Mary Anna describes Justine as “a little bit Rosie-the-Riveter and a little bit Bletchley Park code breaker.” Her new historical mystery, THE DARK LIBRARY, a Gothic suspense novel set in the Hudson River Valley in 1942, will be out in June 2025.