John Copenhaver

John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery, and his second novel, The Savage Kind, won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery. He is a founding member of Queer Crime Writers and an at-large board member of Mystery Writers of America. He currently 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, where he lives with his husband, artist Jeffery Paul.