Tornado Alley Mystery Writers
Tornado Alley Mystery Writers
Latest Episodes
Episode 56: Interview with Chase Dearinger
Chase Dearinger is an Oklahoma native who now lives in Kansas with his wife and two daughters. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in magazines around the country, including Bayou, The Southampton Review, Sho...
Episode 55: Interview with C. D. Jarmola
C. D. Jarmola, whose witty, cozy mystery, The Merry Widow, won the OWFI Crème de la Crème award, has never wished to be a widow. But she would love to have a friend like her character, Maeve. Married with two grown children, C. D., a r...
Episode 54: Interview with Alicia Dean
Alicia Dean is from Moore, Oklahoma, affectionately known as Tornado Alley, but now lives in Edmond. Other than reading and writing, her passions are Elvis Presley, MLB, NFL (she usually works in a mention of one or all three into her stories) ...
Episode 53: Interview with Krysta Scott
Krysta Scott grew up in Chicago and moved to Norman, Oklahoma, to attend OU law school. She practiced family law until her recent retirement to become a writer. In her latest novel, Something Wicked, 2026, she combines romance and horr...
Episode 52: Interview with Constance Squires
Constance Squires’ latest novel, Low April Sun, based on the Oklahoma City bombing, was nominated for the National Book Award (2025). A winner of the Oklahoma Book award in 2012, Constance teaches a variety of courses in creative writi...