Tory Hartmann’s short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in
Porcupine: Journal of the Literary Arts, The Homestead Review, Descant, The Hurricane, The Sand Hill Review as well as many others. Her play
The Future Mrs. Snodgrass and the Farting shoes made the semi-finals in the Oxford Ten Minute Play contest. She has also published articles in the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Mateo Times.
Over a period of years, Tory attended six Maui Writers Workshops where she spent a week studying with Pulitzer Prize nominee Craig Lesley, fantasy writer Terry Brooks, and mystery writer Elizabeth George, as well as thriller writers Michael Palmer, Tess Gerritsen, and Gary Braver. Her novel Strange Bedfellows won Best Novel at the 2003 Jack London Writers Conference and she is the 2007 recipient of the Jack London Award for service to the San Francisco Peninsula Branch of the CWC. Her current project is First Friday, a humorous novel about a young woman trying to break away from her smothering Irish Catholic family.
You can learn more about her at www.toryhartmann.com