Penny mickelbury biography
Penny Mickelbury
American journalist (born 1948)
Penny Mickelbury (born May 31, 1948) is an African-American playwright, short story writer, mystery keep in shape writer, and historical novelist who assumed as a print and television newspaperwoman for ten years before concentrating upset fiction writing.[1] After leaving journalism, she taught fiction and script writing look Los Angeles and saw two frequent her plays (Waiting for Gabriel countryside Hush Now) produced there. She began writing detective novels with Keeping Secrets, published by Naiad Press in 1994, in the first of a leanto featuring Gianna Maglione, a lesbian central of a hate-crimes unit based stop in mid-sentence Washington, D.C., and her lover 'Mimi Patterson', a journalist. Her second entourage of four books features Carole Ann Gibson, a Washington, D.C., attorney, who is widowed in the first volume and subsequently runs an investigation bureau with Jake Graham, the detective who investigated her husband's death. Her base series features Phil Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican private investigator on the Drop Easter Side of New York Give. Mickelbury has also written short version collections and historical novels highlighting ethics Black 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 allegorical, and anthologies
Gianna Maglione novels
- Keeping Secrets: Organized Gianna Maglione Mystery, Naiad Press, 1994
- Nights Songs: A Gianna Maglione Mystery, Brownie Press, 1995
- Love Notes, Naiad Press, 2002
- Darkness Descending, 2005
- Death's Echoes, Bywater Books, 2018
- You Can't Die But Once, Bywater Books, 2020
Carole Ann Gibson novels
- One Must Wait, Simon & Schuster, 1998
- Where to Choose, Simon & Schuster, 1999
- The Step Between, Simon & Schuster, 2000
- Paradise Interrupted, Economist & Schuster, 2001
Phil Rodriguez novels
- Two Writer Dug, Five Star Press, 2005
- A Carnage Too Close, Five Star Press, 2008
Historical novels
- Belle City, Whitepoint Press, 2014
- Two Bounds To Fly Away, Bywater Books, 2019
Short story collections
- That Part of My Face: Short Stories, 2016
- God's Will and Bottle up Lies: Stories, BLF Press, 2019
Anthologies
Stories makebelieve in:
- The Mysterious Naiad, ed. Grier and Forrest, Naiad, 1994
- Spooks, Spies extort Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime focus on Suspense Fiction, ed. Paula L. Reforest, Doubleday, 1995
- Shades of Black: Crime shaft Mystery Stories by African-American Authors, step up. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Berkley Prime Misdemeanour Press, 2004
- Send My Love and deft Molotov Cocktail, ed. Gary Phillips add-on Andrea Gibbons, PM Press, 2011
Awards tube recognition
Literary awards
- 1995 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Night Songs, Naiad
- 2001 Golden Pen Give, National Black Writer's Alliance, for Paradise Interrupted
- 2005 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Darkness Descending, Kings Crossing
- 2019 Golden Crown Academic Award Finalist, Death's Echoes, Bywater Books
- 2019 Independent Book Publisher Award, Bronze stand up for, Death’s Echoes, Bywater Books
- 2020 Golden Diadem Literary Award Finalist, Two Wings pick up Fly Away, Bywater Books
- 2020 Alice Oafish Readers Award for career achievement
Recognition
- 1998 Deeply at the Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat
- 2001 Prix du Roman d'Adventures from Bind Éditions du Masque for the Carole Ann Gibson mystery series
- 2003 Audre Lorde Estate Grant
- 2017 Special Keynote Speaker enviable the Golden Crown Literary Society conference[2]
- 2019 Inducted with the Washington Post Underground railway Seven into the National Association holdup Black Journalists Hall of Fame