Kim Keeline was co-chair for Left Coast Crime 2020. She is a past president of the San Diego Sisters in Crime chapter, Partners in Crime. March 2020, she published her first story, “The Crossing,” in the anthology Crossing Borders. That story also won 3rd place out of 150 in the SD Public Library’s Short Story Contest and was also a finalist for the Derringer Best Short Story award in 2021. Her second short story was in the 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, California Schemin’. Since then she has published three more short stories in anthologies. She is still drafting her mystery novel. She freelances for authors in marketing, editing, web site designing, and more. www.kimkeeline.com