Judy Hogan

Judy Hogan’s newest book is The Death of a Hell-Razor: The Ninth Penny Weaver Mystery. Her grandmother's diary: Grace: A China Diary, 1910-16 came out from Wipf and Stock in 2017. Her first two mystery novels, Killer Frost (2012) and Farm Fresh and Fatal (2013) were first published by Mainly Murder Press in CT. Her third, The Sands of Gower, which is the first one written, was published December 1, 2015 by Hoganvillaea Books. The second one written, Haw, was published May 1, 2016. Nuclear Apples? and Formaldehyde, Rooster came out in September and December 2016. Political Peaches, the reprinted Killer Frost and the reprinted Farm Fresh and Fatal came out in 2018, as well as Tormentil Hall and The Death of a Hell-Razor. Judy founded Carolina Wren Press (1976-91) and was co-editor of Hyperion Poetry Journal (1970-81). She has published seven volumes of poetry and three non-fiction works with independent presses. She has taught all forms of creative writing since 1974. In 1983 she helped found the North Carolina Writers’ Network and served as its first president (1984-7). She joined Sisters in Crime in 2007 and has focused on writing and publishing traditional mystery novels. In 2011 she was a finalist in the St. Martin’s Malice Domestic Mystery contest for Killer Frost. In 2015 she decided to set up Hoganvillaea Books, her own publishing imprint, in order to publish more of her mysteries. The Sands of Gower: The First Penny Weaver Mystery was her first release under this new imprint. Her Penny Weaver series takes up interracial community issues. Most of the novels take place in the central North Carolina fictional village of Riverdell, but three take place on the Gower Peninsula in Wales where Penny meets and falls in love with Kenneth Morgan, a Welsh Detective Inspector. She has written 17 Penny Weaver mysteries, and will continue to publish them. In 2019 the first of 4 books about her experiences in Russia and with Russians, Baba Summer, Part One, will come out from Adelaide Books of New York. The twists and turns of Hogan’s life’s path over the years have given her plenty to write about. She is also a small farmer, a community activist, currently trying to stop coal ash dumping in her community. She lives in Moncure, N.C., near Jordan Lake.