Shari Held is an Indianapolis-based freelance journalist, editor, and author. Her short stories have been published in Hoosier Noir 3 magazine and many anthologies, including The Fine Art of Murder, Homicide for the Holidays, Circle City Crime, Murder 20/20, for which she also served as co-editor, and The Big Fang (coming November 2021). When not writing, she cares for feral cats and other wildlife, knits, and thinks up imaginative ways for her characters to get into all manner of trouble!