Brief biographies of the three authors who will be taking part in our panel discussion,
"Write What You Know" on Tuesday, March 2nd at 6:30 p.m.

Ruth McCarty's short mysteries have appeared in all Level Best Books anthologies.  She has received honorable mentions in
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, N.E.W.N., and mysteryauthors.com for her flash fiction and won the 2009 Derringer Award
for BEST FLASH STORY for her story "No Flowers for Stacey" published in Deadfall:  Crime Stories by New England Writers.
She is a past president of the New England Chapter Sisters in Crime and a member of Mystery Writers of America.

Jessica Speart is an investigative journalist whose focus is on wildlife law enforcement, endangered species issues, and the
environment.  Speart created her sleuth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Rachel Porter, after years of investigating wildlife and
drug trafficking crimes for publications such as the New York Sunday Times Magazine, Omni, Travel & Leisure, Audubon,
National Wildlife, Mother Jones, Wildlife Conservation, Earth Journal and Animals Magazine, among others.  When she began
to find the characters she covered stranger than fiction, she decided to turn her pen toward mysteries.

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith has live all her life in Connecticut except for the two years she served as a Peace Corps volunteer
in Cameroon.  Presently, she writes from her crow's nest in East Haven, breaking periodically to ride the rails from New Haven
to New York where she enjoys the city lights.  She has two children, Jene, an RN at Yale-New Haven's clinics, and Jere, who
has had a blog since 2004:  A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory (http://letsgosox.blogspot,com)  Not only does he cover
Red Sox lore and stats, he reviews her books-when he's not co-writing them with her i.e. DIRTY WATER:  A RED SOX MYSTERY.