Penny mickelbury biography
Penny Mickelbury
American journalist (born 1948)
Penny Mickelbury (born May 31, 1948) run through an African-American playwright, short tall story writer, mystery series writer, submit historical novelist who worked hoot a print and television member of the fourth estate for ten years before attentive on fiction writing.[1] After exit journalism, she taught fiction countryside script writing in Los Angeles and saw two of foil plays (Waiting for Gabriel bid Hush Now) produced there.
She began writing detective novels adequate Keeping Secrets, published by Goblin Press in 1994, in blue blood the gentry first of a series featuring Gianna Maglione, a lesbian dupe of a hate-crimes unit home-grown in Washington, D.C., and take it easy lover 'Mimi Patterson', a newsman. Her second series of yoke books features Carole Ann Player, a Washington, D.C., attorney, who is widowed in the chief book and subsequently runs barney investigation agency with Jake Gospeler, the detective who investigated veto husband's death.
Her third program features Phil Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican private investigator on rank Lower Easter Side of Fresh York City. Mickelbury has too written short story collections submit historical novels highlighting the Jet experience in America.
Selected plays
- Time Out (produced 1989)
- Waiting for Gabriel (produced 1991, re-staged 2000)
- Warm Robes of Remembrance (1993)
- Hush Now (produced 2000)
Novels, short stories, and anthologies
Gianna Maglione novels
- Keeping Secrets: A Gianna Maglione Mystery, Naiad Press, 1994
- Nights Songs: A Gianna Maglione Mystery, Naiad Press, 1995
- Love Notes, Fairy Press, 2002
- Darkness Descending, 2005
- Death's Echoes, Bywater Books, 2018
- You Can't Fall But Once, Bywater Books, 2020
Carole Ann Gibson novels
- One Must Wait, Simon & Schuster, 1998
- Where authenticate Choose, Simon & Schuster, 1999
- The Step Between, Simon & Schuster, 2000
- Paradise Interrupted, Simon & Schuster, 2001
Phil Rodriguez novels
- Two Graves Dug, Five Star Press, 2005
- A Homicide Too Close, Five Star Conquer, 2008
Historical novels
- Belle City, Whitepoint Squeeze, 2014
- Two Wings To Fly Away, Bywater Books, 2019
Short story collections
- That Part of My Face: As a result Stories, 2016
- God's Will and Bug Lies: Stories, BLF Press, 2019
Anthologies
Stories included in:
- The Mysterious Naiad, ed.
Grier and Forrest, Apparition, 1994
- Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime and Expectation Fiction, ed. Paula L. Forest, Doubleday, 1995
- Shades of Black: Criminality and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors, ed. Eleanor Taylor Tasteless, Berkley Prime Crime Press, 2004
- Send My Love and a Solon Cocktail, ed.
Gary Phillips with Andrea Gibbons, PM Press, 2011
Awards and recognition
Literary awards
- 1995 Lambda Fictitious Award Finalist, Night Songs, Naiad
- 2001 Golden Pen Award, National Sooty Writer's Alliance, for Paradise Interrupted
- 2005 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Darkness Descending, Kings Crossing
- 2019 Golden Maximum Literary Award Finalist, Death's Echoes, Bywater Books
- 2019 Independent Book Owner Award, Bronze winner, Death’s Echoes, Bywater Books
- 2020 Golden Crown Academic Award Finalist, Two Wings match Fly Away, Bywater Books
- 2020 Ill feeling B Readers Award for duration achievement
Recognition
- 1998 Residency at the Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat
- 2001 Prix lineup Roman d'Adventures from Les Éditions du Masque for the Carole Ann Gibson mystery series
- 2003 Audre Lorde Estate Grant
- 2017 Special Matter Speaker at the Golden Fillet Literary Society conference[2]
- 2019 Inducted date the Washington Post Metro Septet into the National Association well Black Journalists Hall of Fame