Short Bio:
Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC and moved to Chicago a long time ago, where she, naturally, began to write gritty crime fiction. She soon began writing historical fiction as well. Eighteen novels and nearly thirty short stories later, she claims they’ll take her out of the Windy City feet first. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime writing community and has even won a few.
She has been a finalist twice for the Anthony and the Shamus Awards; four times for Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year, which she won in 2018. She has also been nominated for the Agatha, the Daphne, and she won the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in 2021. She has won the IPPY, Foreword Magazine’s Indie Awards, and the Readers Choice Award multiple times.
Libby was the President of Sisters in Crime in 2006. For two years she hosted “Solved,” a streaming video show featuring bestselling and emerging Crime Authors. She was also the host of “Second Sunday Crime,” a podcast with the Authors on the Air network. Episodes of both shows are on Libby’s YouTube channel.
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