Mary Anna Evans is retired from the University of Oklahoma, where she was a tenured associate professor. She is the author of seventeen crime novels, which have received recognition including the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Oklahoma Book Award, and a Will Rogers Medallion Award gold medal. Her work has appeared in publications including Feminist Studies, Clues: A Journal of Detection, The Atlantic, The Louisville Review, and CrimeReads. With J.C. Bernthal, she is co-editor of the Edgar-nominated The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie (2022) and she is co-editor, with Rebecca Probert, of the upcoming Agatha Christie and the Law: The Legal Intelligence of the First Lady of Crime (2028).