John Copenhaver | |
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John Copenhaver is an American writer of crime fiction. His books include Dodging and Burning (2018), The Savage Kind (2022), and Hall of Mirrors (2024).
Career
[edit]His work has appeared on CrimeReads,[1] Electric Lit,[2] PANK magazine,[3] and the New York Journal of Books.[4] He is a member of the Mystery Writers of America.[5]
His works has received critical reviews and awards. His first novel, Dodging and Burning won the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, nominated for the 2019 Strand Critics Awards,[6] Barry Award for Best First Novel,[7] Anthony Award for First Best Novel,[8]and Lambda Award for Best Gay Mystery.[9] His second work, The Savage Kind won the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery,[10] and was nominated for Left Coast Crime's 2022 Best Historical Mystery.[11]
Copenhaver has been a fellow of many literary societies. He was an Artist Fellow of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.[12][13] His novels are set in the 1940s in Virginia and Washington, DC, and often explores the lives of the LGBTQ community through a mystery narrative.[14] He teaches at the University of Nebraska's MFA in Creative Writing Program,[15] and the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia[16]
Selected works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Dodging and Burning (2018)
- The Savage Kind (2021)
- Hall of Mirrors (2024)
References
[edit]- ^ "The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope". CrimeReads. 13 September 2019.
- ^ "10 LGBTQ Crime Fiction Must-Reads". Electric Lit. 5 March 2018.
- ^ "Review: Read by Strangers by Philip Dean Walker". PANK. 29 August 2018.
- ^ "Review: Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession". New York Journal of Books. 2018.
- ^ "Board of Directors – Mystery Writers of America".
- ^ "And the Nominees Are... The Nominees for the 2019 Strand Critics Awards - Strand Magazine". 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Barry Awards (Crime Fiction) - 2019 -". 22 January 2019.
- ^ "Macavity Awards – Mystery Readers International". Mystery Readers International – Publisher of Mystery Readers Journal. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "Previous Winners".
- ^ "2022 Winners". Lambda Literary. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "Left Coast Crime 2022: Southwest Sleuths".
- ^ "FY19 Grantees - Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP)". dcarts.dc.gov.
- ^ "FY20 Grantees - Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP) | dcarts".
- ^ "Mysteryscenemag".
- ^ "Faculty Mentors | Writer's Workshop | University of Nebraska Omaha". www.unomaha.edu.
- ^ "Copenhaver - English - Virginia Commonwealth University". english.vcu.edu.