George Pelecanos is the author of nineteen novels set in and around Washington, DC. He served as a writer and producer on HBO’s The Wire, The Pacific, and, most recently, Treme. He edited both DC Noir and DC Noir 2: The Classics for Akashic Books.
Elizabeth Hand’s writing honors include the Shirley Jackson Award, the James Tiptree Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and others, and several of her books have been New York Times and Washington Post Notable Books. The bestselling author of fourteen genre-spanning novels and five collections of short fiction and essays she lives in Maine. Her website is elizabethhand.com.
Julian Mazor was born in Baltimore and grew up in Washington, D.C. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Shenandoah, and the O'Henry Prize collection series. Washington and Baltimore, his earlier collection of stories, was published in 1968.
