Boston Noir (22 page)

Trudy O'Nan

S
TEWART
O'N
AN'S
story collection
In the Walled City
received the 1993 Drue Heinz Prize. His many novels include
Snow Angels, The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster,
and
Songs for the Missing.
With Stephen King, he coauthored
Faithful
, a nonfiction account of the 2004 Red Sox season, and had the pleasure of hanging out around the Fens again, where he used to clean weekly apartments.

Prudence Carter

P
ATRICIA
P
OWELL
was born in Jamaica and emigrated to Boston with her family in 1982. She is the author of
Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda,
and
The Fullness of Everything.
Powell currently lives in California, after spending twenty-five years in Boston. She is a professor of creative writing at Mills College.