Milwaukee Noir

Christina Clancy is the author of The Second Home. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Sun Magazine, and in various literary journals, including Glimmer Train, Pleiades, and Hobart. She holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her family. 

Vida Cross is a Cave Canem fellow, a graduate of The School of the Art Institute’s  MFAW program, and a Chicago native who teaches and resides in Milwaukee. Her work has appeared a number of anthologies including: The Creativity and Constraint Anthology, A Civil Rights Retrospective, Tabula Poetica, the Cave Canem Anthology XII: Poems 2008-2009, and The Journal of Film and Video. A 2018 Pushcart nominee, Vida Cross’s book of poetry, Bronzeville at Night:1949, debuted in 2017. 

Tim Hennessy is a bookseller and writer who lives in Milwaukee with his wife and son. His work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Tough, Crimespree Magazine, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, among other places. He is the editor of Milwaukee Noir.

Jennifer Morales is the second-place winner of the 2020 Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. She is a poet, fiction writer, and performance artist based in rural Wisconsin. Morales lived in Milwaukee for over twenty years, and served as the city’s first elected Latinx school board member. She’s also been a mom, a doula, a Sunday School teacher, a grantwriter, and an editor for academic and artistic clients around the world.

Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. His story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in The Seattle Review, a national literary journal. His first novel, The Drifter, won the ITW Thriller and Barry Awards, and was nominated for Edgar, Anthony, and Hammett Awards.

Mary Thorson was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. She received her BA in creative writing from UW-Milwaukee and her MFA from Pacific University. She’s been published in various literary journals and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Shorewood with her husband, daughter, and loud dog.