STEPHEN SPOTSWOOD is an award-winning playwright, journalist, and the creator of the Pentecost & Parker mystery series. He is the winner of the 2017 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Original New Play, winner of the 2021 Nero Award for best American mystery, a two-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Mystery, and an Edgar Award finalist. As a journalist, he has spent much of the last two decades writing about the struggles of wounded veterans, and his dramatic work has been widely produced across the United States. He makes his home in Washington, DC with his wife, young adult author Jessica Spotswood.
