Kerrie Droban

Kerrie M. Droban heads her own private law firm in Phoenix, Arizona, where she specializes in criminal defense and capital litigation. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, where she studied with playwright Edward Albee and with poets Jon Anderson and Carolyn Kizer. Published excerpts of her collection of poems entitled, "The Language of Butchers," have earned numerous awards, including the Academy of American Poet's Award, New Letters International Poetry Award, Poet Lore Award, Amelia Encore Award and the Daniel Shockett Award Kerrie's published novels include, In the Company of Darkness and The Watchman's Circle, which won the Daphne Du Maurier Award for excellence in suspense writing. Critics have described Kerrie's novels as "riveting, compelling and shocking" filled with "heart-stopping action" and at times "terrifying characters" "who will live in our thoughts for a long time to come." Her 2007 non-fiction, true crime book entitled Running with the Devil: The True Story of ATF's Infiltration of the Arizona Hells Angels earned her a 2008 Commissioner's Medal for Superior Performance from the Kentucky Department of Corrections after she was a keynote speaker at the National Major Gang Task Force 14th Annual Conference. Kerrie is a former Maricopa County Attorney Prosecutor. She is the recipient of the Fegtly Moot Court Award for Excellence in Oral Advocacy and the Outstanding Closing Argument Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. As a contributing author, Kerrie wrote a search and seizure manual distributed to APAAC (Arizona Prosecutors Association) and has participated in over thirty felony jury trials, authored over fifty legal briefs, one of which, State v. Ring was heard by the United States Supreme Court and resulted in the remand of over 180 death penalty cases nationwide.