Barri L. Bumgarner

Barri L. Bumgarner has just released her second novel, Slipping, a suspense thriller about a serial killer with dissociative personality disorder. Her debut novel, 8 Days, has been nominated for a Gateway 2007 Readers' Award, and is currently in its second printing.

Bumgarner freelances for Crescendo, School & Community, and Family magazines. She received Best Technical Article honors, second and third place, for her education articles, awarded by the Missouri Writers' Guild in 2005. She also received Writer's Digest 72nd Annual Writing Competition honors in 2004. Her short story 'Retribution' will appear in Mysteries of the Ozarks, Vol. II in early 2006. Her short fiction has also appeared in Rock Springs Review, Well-Versed, and B4Deadline.com.

The prequel to 8 Days, The Movement, will be released in 2006.

Ms. Bumgarner divides her time between finishing her Masters, writing, and touring to sell her current releases. She lives in Columbia, Missouri, and is at work on a true crime book about the murder conviction of Columbia police officer Steven Rios