Queer Characters in Crime Fiction Author Panel

Join us for an author panel of the sleuthing variety featuring LGBTQIA+ characters! Signings to take place after the discussion.

The panelists:

Aggie Blum Thompson (THE NEIGHBORS ARE WATCHING) covered real-life crime as a newspaper reporter for a number of papers, including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. Aggie is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers, and serves as the program director for the Montgomery County chapter of the Maryland Writers Association. She lives with her husband and two children in the suburbs of Washington DC.

John Copenhaver (HALL OF MIRRORS, CRIME INK) won the 2019 Macavity Award for "Best First Mystery" for Dodging and Burning, and the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for "Best Mystery" for The Savage Kind. He is a co-founder of Queer Crime Writers and an at-large board member of Mystery Writers of America. He cohosts on the "House of Mystery Radio Show." He’s a faculty mentor in the University of Nebraska’s Low-Residency MFA program and teaches at VCU in Richmond, VA.

Diana DiGangi (LAST CHANCE CHICAGO) was born and raised in the suburbs outside Washington D.C. She holds both a bachelor's and master's in journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she started her journalism career in television news, then returned to the D.C. area to pursue work as an investigative journalist. She now covers the federal government full-time while writing fiction in her spare time. In the tiny sliver of her day that she spends not writing, she likes to bike the trails in D.C. and Arlington, grill out with friends, play video games, and help her parents take care of the family whippets.

Stephen Spotswood (DEAD IN THE FRAME) is an award-winning playwright, journalist, and educator. As a journalist, he has spent much of the last two decades writing about the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the struggles of wounded veterans. His dramatic work has been widely produced across the United States, and he is the winner of the 2021 Nero Award for best American mystery. He makes his home in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Young Adult author Jessica Spotswood.

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