Libby Cudmore
is the author of Negative Girl (Datura 2024) and The Big Rewind (William Morrow 2016) as well as the Wade & Jacks P.I. series in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Tough. Her short fiction has appeared in The Dark, Smokelong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Shotgun Honey, Stone’s Throw and HAD, as well as the anthologies Mixed Up, Welcome Home, Hanzai Japan, A Beast Without a Name and Lawyers, Guns & Money: Crime Fiction Inspired By the Music of Warren Zevon (co-edited with Art Taylor). She is the 2018 recipient of the Oregon Writer’s Colony prize, the 2023 Shamus award for best P.I short story, and the 2023 Black Orchid Novella award.
She is the current co-host of the OST Party and Misbehavin’ podcasts and the former co-host of The Shattered Shield podcast, and teaches short fiction through The Writer’s Circle.
Books
NEGATIVE GIRL
For fans of Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford comes Negative Girl: an evocative, moody, neo-noir thriller that explores obsession and people dying across America’s forgotten spaces.
THE BIG REWIND
Raymond Chandler meets Nick Hornby in this clever noir romp through hipster Brooklyn as a mysterious mix tape puts a young amateur sleuth on the hunt for a killer—and for the truths hidden within her own heart.
LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY (Editor/Contributor)
A BEAST WITHOUT A NAME (Contributor)
HANZAI JAPAN (Contributor)
WELCOME HOME (Contributor)
MIXED UP (Contributor)
BLEED ERROR (Contributor)
Libby has taught mystery/crime writing workshops for teens and adults at The Writer’s Circle, Sisters in Crime, the Pen in Hand Young Writers Conference, the Colgate University Young Writers Conference, and others.
Interested in having Libby in your classroom? Contact her here.
Podcasts
The OST Party
Libby Cudmore is a music nerd. Joseph Wade is a movie nerd. With our powers combined, we break down all your favorite movie soundtracks one song at a time! 80s dance classics, 90s road trip comedies, 2000s action epics…We sift through them all to find the perfect soundtrack gems!
Misbehavin’
Hosts Libby Cudmore and Dashing Drew Rude are ready to spread the gospel of HBO’s TheRighteousGemstones.
The Shattered Shield
A podcast where FX’s “The Shield” super fan DashingDrewRude introduces his friend PandaNeverSleeps (and later, Libby Cudmore) to the television series. The show is an in depth look at The Shield 10 years after the series finale. Each week the guys will review the show week by week, episode by episode and give you their unique perspectives as a long time fan and newcomer.
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