Shimmerville

Playwright, novelist, short story writer, and essayist Gary Earl Ross is a retired University at Buffalo professor. His other produced plays include Sleepwalker, Picture Perfect, The Best Woman, Murder Squared, and The Guns of Christmas. His books include The Wheel of Desire, Shimmerville, Blackbird Rising, Beneath the Ice, and the Gideon Rimes mysteries Nickel City Blues, Nickel City Crossfire, and Nickel City Storm Warning. Among his honors are the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America, three Emanuel Fried Outstanding New Play Awards, public radio commentary awards from the New York Associated Press and the New York Broadcasters Association, and assorted fellowships, grants, and residencies for fiction and drama. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Dramatists Guild of America, International Thriller Writers, Crime Writers of Color, and the Just Buffalo Literary Center.