about me
Abra Deering loves creating worlds in fiction. Her crime short story “Devil Winds”was recently published in Mystery Tribune. Her mystery short story “Life in a Northern Town” was recently published in Shotgun Honey.
She recently completed the first novel in her historical mystery/thriller series with a strong female sleuth set in 1899 San Francisco. She earned her MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing.
She is a current member of Sisters in Crime and the Historical Novel Society. Her love of mysteries were born at a young age, she inherited her mom’s Nancy Drew “tweeds” at the age of five and traded Agatha Christie’s and Dick Francis mysteries with her mom and sister. At fifteen, she spent an entire summer reading up on ancient history. She loves historical research. Her short story about Sherlock Holmes’ daughter, “Bohemian Soul,” appeared in the Pushcart publication special Holmes edition Jersey Devil Press. Her essays and freelance columns have appeared in The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, SheKnows.com. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in various literary journals. She’s worked as a Story Analyst for United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills and a Film Analyst for the film studios. She attended NYU’s Tisch and received her BA in English Literature from the University of Minnesota. She is an advocate for women's equality in film, media, and publishing. She co-wrote, produced and directed an original animated test film for Amazon Studios / Warner Bros which won awards. She co-wrote and developed a screenplay, The Baby Whisperer with Fox/Davis. Most recently, she co-wrote a screenplay which placed in the Top 15% of the Academy Nicholl Fellowship screenplay competition.
When she's not writing, reading, doing historical research or spending time with her family walking their goofy border collie & listening to their parakeets chirp, she hikes, reads, sometimes bakes, goes antiquing, paints furniture & watches really good TV shows and mysteries.
Some of her favorite authors:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four
Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple
Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe
Sue Grafton Kinsey Milhone series
Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs series
Deanna Raybourn
Ruth Ware Woman in Cabin 10 and Death of Mrs. Westway
P.D. James
James Runcie
David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper
Alan Furst
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Dick Francis
Mickey Spillane
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Mark Twain
Dickens
