Stephen Ross

Stephen Ross had a misspent childhood. He played a lot of electric guitar and piano in bands no one’s ever heard of and, using his dad’s movie camera, shot a bunch of crime movies with his high school friends. One day, he wrote a short mystery story and sent it to a magazine. They bought it and published it.

Since then, Stephen has written over three dozen short stories and novelettes, which have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, several Mystery Writers of America anthologies, and many other publications, including Dark Deeds Down Under, the first ever anthology of New Zealand and Australian mystery fiction.

Stephen has been nominated for an Edgar Award, a Derringer Award, a Thriller Award, and has been an Ellery Queen Readers’ Award finalist.

A member of the Mystery Writers of America and the New Zealand Society of Authors, Stephen was recently a contributor to Lee Child’s multi award-winning handbook: How to Write a Mystery.

Stephen is currently having a misspent adulthood. He lives in Auckland, Aotearoa, and believes it is entirely appropriate to eat chocolate while reading. StephenRoss.net