Craig McDonald (edit name/settings)

Edgar®—nominee Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer. His short fiction has appeared in literary magazines, anthologies and several online crime fiction sites.

His debut novel, Head Games, was published by Bleak House Books in September 2007. Head Games was selected as a 2008 Edgar®—nominee for Best First Novel by an American Author. Head Games was also a finalist for the Anthony, Gumshoe and Crimespree Magazine awards for best first novel.

It was followed by the novels Toros & Torsos, Print the Legend, One True Sentence and the 2011 standalone, El Gavilan, about illegal immigration tensions in a small Ohio town.

His fiction has achieved international stature and appears in translation in France, Italy, Japan, Russia and North Korea, among other countries.

His nonfiction books include Art in the Blood, a collection of interviews with 20 major crime authors which appeared in 2006, and Rogue Males: Conversations and Confrontations About the Writing Life, a second collection of interviews published by Bleak House Books in 2009.

McDonald was also a contributor to the NYT's nonfiction bestseller, Secrets of the Code. He recently won national awards for his profiles of crime novelists James Crumley, Daniel Woodrell, James Sallis and Elmore Leonard. He makes his home in Ohio and is a member of Mystery Writers of America.

You can find him on the web at www.craigmcdonaldbooks.com