Judy Alter
After an established career writing historical fiction for adults and young adults about women of the nineteenth-century American West, Texas author Judy Alter turned her attention to contemporary cozy mysteries and wrote three series. Her Irene in Chicago Culinary Mysteries are set in Chicago’s historic Hyde Park neighborhood, the neighborhood of Judy’s childhood to which she was delighted to return if only in fiction. Retired after almost thirty years with TCU Press, twenty of them as director, Judy lives in a small cottage—just right for one and a dog—in Fort Worth, Texas with her Bordoodle Sophie. She is the mother of four and the grandmother of seven. Her hobby is cooking, and she’s learning how to cook in a postage-stamp kitchen without a stove.