![]() ![]() Manansala acknowledged feeling a certain ambiguity about the mystery world: “I have met some of the kindest, most welcoming people in the crime fiction community. ![]() The author described her stories as “ amateur sleuth and cozy mysteries, which are heavily invested in the idea of community: the disruption of its peaceful facade and how only someone from within can set it right.” We reached out to Manansala to ask her a bit about her writing. This prize judges-Cynthia Kuhn, Tonya Spratt-Williams, and Maria Kelson-said of the 2018 honoree, Manansala, she “exhibits sophisticated genre awareness and playfulness with genre conventions and we believe the manuscript-which features a very funny, millennial, Filipina-American protagonist-makes a new, worthy, and worthwhile contribution to crime fiction.” ![]()
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