Nancy Means Wright has published 15 books of fiction and nonfiction, including 5 mystery novels (St. Martin's Press), a novella (Worldwide Library), a mainstream YA (Dutton), and two historical mysteries, Midnight Fires and The Nightmare (forthcoming Perseverance Press, '10 and '11). The Pea Soup Poisonings won the '06 Agatha Award for Best Children's/YA Novel, and the Great Circus Train Robbery was an '08 Agatha Award finalist. Poems & short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including American Literary Review, Seventeen, Redbook, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (forthcoming), Level Best Books et al.
A longtime teacher, actress-director, Bread Loaf Scholar for her first novel, Wright lives with her spouse and two Maine Coon cats on a dirt road in the environs of Middlebury, Vermont. Visit her website for more information.
