Libby Cudmore

Libby Cudmore is a crime and speculative fiction writer whose Wade & Jacks private-investigator series has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Tough. Her novel Negative Girl (Datura, 2024) was a finalist for a 2025 ITW Thriller Award. She won the 2025 Inaugural Prose Contest at Eleventh Hour Literary with 'Nancy Drew & the Secret of Boy Island', and her short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her work has won the Shamus Award and the Black Orchid Novella Award, and she co-edited the anthology Lawyers, Guns & Money with Art Taylor. She is a Binghamton University graduate.