Nicole Larson: President

Nicole Sours Larson is an award-winning freelance journalist, community activist and Coast Guard-licensed captain who is rewriting her first mystery. A past president of the San Diego Press Club, she writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Home & Garden, Sea Magazine and pens the Dock Lines with Captain Nicole column for the boating newspaper The Log. Her eclectic background includes running Virginia plantations and a Frank Lloyd Wright house for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, working on numerous political and issues campaigns, lobbying on Capitol Hill, earning a grand diplôme from Cordon Bleu Paris and organizing wine tastings in London, Washington, DC, and San Diego. She lives with her husband and two fabulous felines on the beach, where she enjoys contemplating mysteries.
Curtis Ippolito: Vice President

Curtis Ippolito is an Anthony Award and Derringer-nominated author. His first novel is BURYING THE NEWSPAPER MAN, set in San Diego. His short fiction has been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Vautrin Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Bristol Noir, Mystery Tribune, and more. He is a former newspaper reporter, health care marketing specialist and writer, and currently works as a development writer at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. When he’s not writing or reading, you can find him taking hikes, exploring San Diego native plants, or hanging out at the ocean.
Kathleen Krevat: Secretary

Kathy Krevat is the author of the bestselling CHOCOLATE COVERED MYSTERY series and the GOURMET CAT MYSTERY series. Her short stories have been published in the CROSSING BORDERS anthology, CRIME UNDER THE SUN anthology, and THE SKY’S THE LIMIT anthology.
When she’s not writing, Kathy performs stand-up comedy and tries very hard not to volunteer. Visit her at: www.kathykrevat.com.
Janet Wolf: Treasurer
Corey Fayman: Director at Large

Corey Lynn Fayman was born in La Jolla, CA in the same hospital where Raymond Chandler died. He holds a B.A. in English, with a specialization in creative writing and poetry from UCLA, and an M.A. in Educational Technology from San Diego State University. His creative career includes work as a musician, songwriter, sound designer, multimedia developer and college professor. He is the author of six mystery novels, including the San Diego Book Awards 2021 Geisel award winner Ballast Point Breakdown and the 2024 Shamus finalist Gillespie Field Groove.
Kim Keeline: Director at Large

Kim Keeline is a former academic turned writer, hard at work at finalizing her first novel, Deadman’s Switch, set in a fictional train museum in Southern California, which won a Conference Choice Award in 2016 at the SDSU Writers Conference. Her short story “The Crossing” was third place in the San Diego Public Library 2019 Short Story contest and was published in Crossing Borders, the Sisters in Crime anthology. It was also a finalist for the Derringer Best Short Story 2021 award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society. A second short story was published in the October 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, California Schemin’. Kim is a freelance Book PR and Graphic Design person for other authors, in addition to teaching Scrivener and giving lectures on a variety of writing, literature, and history topics (see info on her work at her portfolio). She is also a volunteer steam locomotive engineer at the Poway-Midland Railroad. She was the co-chair of the organizing committee for Left Coast Crime 2020 in San Diego and co-chair for Bouchercon 2023..
Carl Vonderau: Director at Large

Carl Vonderau is the author of MURDERABILIA, a thriller that takes place in the upper crust world of private banking. The novel won the Lefty Best Debut Novel at Left Coast Crime 2020. Like the protagonist, William McNary, he has been a private banker and was raised in a Christian Science family. On the other hand, his father was never a serial killer whose photos launched the “murderabilia” market. Nor did Carl’s family use Christian Science to heal his childhood illnesses—well, not most of them, anyway. Actually Carl grew up boringly normal with two caring parents and his sister in a suburb of Cleveland. Then he went off to college in California and things started to get more interesting. He ended up studying economics at Stanford and music at San Jose State University before he embarked on a career in banking. That career enabled him to live and work in Latin America, Canada, and North Africa and to do business in Spanish, French and Portuguese. See his website at www.carlvonderau.com
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Original Launch Board (2016-2018):
- Kathy Krevat, President
- Lisa Brackmann, VP
- Kim Keeline, Secretary
- Valerie Hanson, Treasurer
- Nicole Larson, Programming
- Corey Lynn Fayman, Membership
Volunteer of the Year Award:
Kim Keeline 2017
Kathleen Krevat 2018
Valerie Hanson and Nicole Larson 2019
Sheri Brady, 2020