Amy Crider studied at Goddard College, Second City, and Chicago Dramatists. Her plays have won awards from Heartland New Plays, Word Wave, Frostburg University, and the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. Her mystery novel Disorder won the University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize and was published in 2021. Her new novel, Kells: a novel of the eighth century, will come out in 2023. Her website is www.amycrider.com