BARB GOFFMAN
Barb Goffman has been a finalist for major short story crime-writing awards forty-six times and crime-editing awards three times. These include twenty Agatha Award nominations (a Malice Domestic record), multiple nominations for the Anthony, Macavity, and Derringer Awards, and one nomination for the Thriller and Silver Falchion Awards. She’s gone on to win the Agatha, Anthony, Derringer (for editing), Macavity, and Silver Falchion. Additionally, her story “Dear Emily Etiquette” won the 2020 Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Readers Award. In 2024 she received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Barb works as a freelance editor, often focusing on cozy and traditional mysteries. She also is an associate editor at Black Cat Weekly.
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