Jess Korman grew up in Brooklyn and left at age twelve. He later wrote plays for off-Broadway and regional theater, comedy for TV shows, and he did time as a creative director on Madison Avenue. His pieces have appeared in National Lampoon and other publications. His one-man shows as a satirical singer-songwriter-pianist are often performed in Greenwich Village.
Robert Leuci worked for twenty years as an NYPD detective assigned to narcotics and organized crime. Many of those years were spent working the streets of Brooklyn. Since retirement, he has published six novels and one memoir, as well as various TV scripts, book reviews, and magazine pieces. Leuci is currently an adjunct professor in the English department of the University of Rhode Island.
Errol Louis has been a columnist for the New York Daily News since June 2004. He lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife, Juanita Scarlett, and their son, Noah Louis. His father, Edward Louis, is a retired NYPD inspector whose assignments included a stint as commanding officer of the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville.
Tim McLoughlin is the editor of the multiple — award winning anthology Brooklyn Noir and its companion volume, Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics. His novel, Heart of the Old Country, won Italy’s Premio Penne award and is the basis for the Serenade Films motion picture The Narrows. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Confrontation, A Public Space, and the Brooklyn Rail, as well as the anthologies The Subway Chronicles, New Orleans Noir, and Best American Mystery Stories 2005.
Patricia Mulcahy has lived in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for almost twenty years, and has owned the coffee bar and arts space Tillie’s of Brooklyn in Fort Greene since 1997. A former book publisher, she edited crime writers such as Michael Connelly and James Lee Burke. She now operates an editorial consulting company called Brooklyn Books, and is at work on a novel.
Christopher Musella has been living and writing in Brooklyn with his wife Anne (and now their daughter Gianna) for more than twelve years.
C. J. Sullivan has worked as an associate court clerk in the Brooklyn Supreme Court since 1994. He is also a crime reporter for the New York Post and the author of Wild Tales from the Police Blotter.
Kim Sykes is an actress and writer who regrets not living in Brooklyn. She is also a contributor to Queens Noir and is at work on her first novel.
Rosemarie Yu is a New York — based writer. She is a former legal journalist and a graduate of the New York University School of Law.