President: Christopher Chambers
Vice-President: Sujata Massey
Secretary: Leone Ciporin
Treasurer: Fred Rexroad
Committee Chairs
Program and Planning, Rick Pullen
Newsletter, Marcia Talley / Barb Goffman
Scholarship, Rick Pullen
Election, Barb Goffman
Founding President: Noreen Wald
President: Christopher Chambers
Christopher Chambers is a Washington, D.C. native, a Professor of Media Studies at Georgetown University and Chair of the International Conflict Resolution Center, serves as General Counsel for Soteryx Corporation, a minority-owned company in Saratoga Springs, NY…and somehow finds time to write bestselling crime fiction, graphic novel scripts and vintage pulp. He is the author of the Angela Bivens thriller series for Random House, The Rocket Crockett pulp noir series for Prose-Press, and editor along with Gary Phillips of The Darker Mask graphic short story collection, the Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again: Honoring Harlem’s Herb Jeffries. He was a finalist in 2008 for the PEN/Malamud Short Story Award for “Leviathan.” He’s contributed short stories to The Obama Inheritance: 15 Stores of Conspiracy Noir (Three Rooms Press), The Black Panther: Tales Of Wakanda, The Faking of the President and Midnight Hour–all major award-winning collections and bestsellers. His noir hardboiled mystery Scavenger (2020) won a starred review and profile in Publisher’s Weekly; the sequel Standalone sees the return of the indestructible homeless addict turned PI Dickie Cornish, patrolling the unforgiving city streets ravaged by COVID https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001H6Q096/about
Vice-President: Sujata Massey
Sujata Massey is the author of sixteen novels, two novellas and numerous short stories that have been published in eighteen countries. Her novels have won the Agatha, Lefty, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark prizes and been finalists for the Edgar, Anthony, and Harper Lee literary awards. Sujata writes mystery and suspense fiction set in pre-Independence India, as well as an earlier mystery series set in modern Japan. Her next historical mystery coming out from Soho Press in 2026 is The Star From Calcutta.
Born in England to parents from India and Germany, Sujata was raised primarily in St. Paul, Minnesota, although her home for thirty-three-years-plus has been Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a B.A. in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and wrote features for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper before becoming a novelist. Her hobbies include travel, history, antiques collection, food, gardening, and dance . . . all of which inevitably wind their way into her fiction.
Sujata welcomes correspondence from authors at her website: www.sujatamassey.com.
Secretary: Leone Ciporin
Leone Ciporin was eight years old when she wrote her first novel. Chatterbox, The Talking Monkey, still sits in her desk drawer, but she hasn’t stopped writing since. Throughout college (Yale) and law school (Georgetown), she dreamed up ideas for murder and mayhem, though it wasn’t until 2005 that her first story was published. When she’s not working as an insurance company manager or writing mysteries, Leone walks dogs at her local SPCA. The dogs make excellent personal trainers, urging her on with mournful looks and providing hours of high-intensity interval training. At home, Leone caters to the demands of her two cats, Felix and Oscar. She lives in Charlottesville, Va.
https://leoneciporin.com/bio/
Treasurer: Fred Rexroad
Fred lives with his wife Susan in the DC suburbs of Northern Virginia and writes mystery and fantasy stories. His life has been an eclectic array of locations and interests. He’s lived in nearly every area of the U.S. (the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, West Coast, Midwest, and the Southeast.) For a few years, he lived in Europe and on a boat. Right out of high school, he printed cigar boxes (Swisher Sweet and Hav-A-Tampa), years later he owned a magic store, flew small airplanes, built and flew an ultralight, worked as a self-employed analytical consultant, photographed oil spills and shifting sandbars from a US Coast Guard helicopter, taught Management Science at Wright State University, solved logistics problems for the US Air Force, trained NATO personnel, wandered with his laptop
https://fredrexroad.com
Founding President: Noreen Wald
From 2002 – 2006, Noreen Wald served as President of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of MWA. She is the author of two mystery series-the Jake O’Hara Ghostwriter series and writing as Nora Charles, the South Florida Senior Sleuth Series starring Kate Kennedy as a modern Ms. Marple. Noreen has taught writing classes at The Writer’s Center and the Smithsonian. Many of her students have been published. Noreen also served as Executive Vice President and Secretary for MWA’s National Board of Directors.