Anita Page's first novel, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T, is a dark traditional mystery set in the Catskill Mountains featuring community activist Hannah Fox and Senior Investigator Jack Grundy.Page's short stories have appeared in several anthologies including the three MURDER NEW YORK STYLE anthologies: DEADLY DEBUT, FRESH SLICES, AND FAMILY MATTERS (Glenmere Press), as well as in THE GIFT OF MURDER (Wolfmont Press)and THE PROSECUTION RESTS (Little, Brown). Her stories have also been published in webzines, including Beat to a Pulp,The Back Alley, Word Riot, Mysterical-e, and Mouth Full of Bullets. She received a Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society in 2010 for "'Twas the Night," which appeared in THE GIFT OF MURDER.Anita Page, a native Brooklynite, moved with her family to the Catskills in the mid-Seventies, and from there to New York's Hudson Valley. While in the Catskills, she worked as a freelance feature writer for a regional newspaper. There, too, she met the inspiring women who became the model for Hannah Fox's Women of Action in DAMNED IF YOU DON'T.Since retiring from teaching, she spends much of her time writing, thinking about writing, and reading other people's writing. She also enjoys long walks, films, talking about films at the diner afterward, and time with family and friends. She devotes hours each day to procrastinating various obligations, but doesn't count that among life's pleasures. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Weeds and Dust (APCWD) of which she is the proud founder.She can be found online at www.womenofmystery.net and www.anitapagewriter.blogspot.com