Barb Goffman has been a finalist for national short-story crime awards 43 times, including 18 Agatha Award nominations (a category record), multiple nominations for the Anthony, Macavity, and Derringer awards, and one nomination for the Thriller Award. She’s gone on to win the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Silver Falchion awards. Her story “Dear Emily Etiquette” won the 2020 Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Readers Award, and her collection, Don’t Get Mad, Get Even, won the Silver Falchion for the best short-story collection of 2013. In 2024 she received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Barb works as a freelance editor, often focusing on cozy and traditional mysteries. She also is an associate editor at Black Cat Weekly.

Barb will be answering questions about writing and editing.