M. Ruth Myers is a Shamus Award winning mystery writer. Her Maggie Sullivan series features a gin sipping, gam flashing, gun toting female private eye in 1930s-40s Dayton, Ohio.Novels by the author under the name Mary Ruth Myers have been translated, used in college classes on popular fiction, optioned for film and condensed in Good Housekeeping.A native of Missouri, Myers spent ten of her growing-up years in Cheyenne, Wyoming. After earning a Bachelor of Journalism degree at the University of Missouri J-School she worked as a reporter and feature writer on daily papers in Saginaw, Michigan, and Dayton, Ohio. When not writing, Myers enjoys reading (mostly mystery-suspense) or playing Irish traditional music on the Anglo concertina. She and her husband live in Ohio. They have one grown daughter.