Maine Native and recovering attorney Kate Flora is the author of eleven books, including seven Thea Kozak mysteries, the latest of which is Stalking Death, and Playing God, a police procedural set in Portland, Maine. Her second Joe Burgess police procedural, The Angel of Knowlton Park, was published in September.  Research for Playing God led to her non-fiction collaboration, Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine, which was nominated for an Edgar award in 2007 and was a finalist for the Maine Literary Awards. The story has been featured on Court Tv's Murder by the Book and A&E's Psychic Investigators.

She is a partner in Level Best Books, a cooperative publishing yearly crime story anthologies by New England writers. The sixth anthology is Deadfall . Their other story collections are: Undertow, Riptide, Windchill, Seasmoke and Still Waters. The cooperative is pleased to have been able to provide publishing opportunities for more than a hundred twenty stories and to have introduced many new writers to mystery and short story readers. First time writer Mark Ammons, published in the 2007 anthology, received The Robert Fish Award for best crime story by a first time writer and is a 2008 Edgar nominee.

Flora's profile of Elinor Lipman appeared in The Larcom Review; her profile of Maine's first Poet Laureate, Kate Barnes, appeared in The Wolf Moon Press and later in an anthology. Her short stories have appeared in six anthologies as well as in a collection of stories by former Sisters in Crime international presidents, Sisters on the Case. Another story appeared in Per Se, an anthology of fiction honoring her inspiring writing teacher, Arthur Edelstein. Short pieces have appeared in ForeWord Magazine and the Northeastern Law School alumni magazine. She is a former international president of Sisters in Crime, and a former Maine Assistant Attorney General.  She teaches writing for Grub Street in Boston. Flora is an MFA candidate in writing at Vermont College.

Flora is married and the mother of two sons, one into film and the other into physics. She divides her time between Maine and Massachusetts, where she wages two constant battles. One is to protect her perennial gardens from deer, woodchucks, chipmunks, and her husband's lawnmower. The other is to devise sneaky and skillful ways to get the guys in her life to eat their vegetables. 

Her websites are: kateflora.com, www.FindingAmy.com , and www.LevelBestBooks.com

 

 

 

 

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