PRESIDENT
Gerald So
E-mail: g_so@yahoo.com
The fiction editor for The Thrilling Detective Web Site, TV/film columnist for Mysterical-E, and a reviewer for Nasty. Brutish. Short, Gerald holds a B.A. in English from Hofstra University and a Master's in Creative Writing from Queens College/CUNY. He taught English at Hofstra for six years before turning to freelance writing full-time.

VICE PRESIDENT
Jim Doherty
Email: jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com
A police officer for more than a decade, Jim has served in law enforcement at the local, state, and federal levels. Under his own name he’s written police procedural stories featuring roving cop Dan Sullivan. Sullivan stories have appeared in Blue Murder, Mystery Buff, Hand Held Crime, and Writers’ Journal, among other venues. Jim has also written private eye stories as Kenneth Thornton Samuels and western/mystery hybrids as Scott Morrison. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently lives in Chicago.

DERRINGER AWARDS COORDINATOR
Nikki Dolson
Email: nikkidolson@yahoo.com
Nikki is a writer living in Las Vegas, NV with her husband and kids.

WEB DESIGNER
Kevin Burton Smith
E-mail: kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com
Kevin is a Montreal writer, editor, critic and essayist currently stationed in Southern California, whose views on crime and detective fiction have appeared in Mystery Scene, CrimeSpree, January Magazine, The Rap Sheet, Crime Spree, Blue Murder Magazine, Details and Mystery Readers Journal. He's currently stationed in the Los Angeles area. As well as maintaining the official Short Mystery Fiction Society Web Site, he's the founder/editor of The Thrilling Detective Web Site. Recent examples of his fiction have appeared in Iced, a Canadian noir anthology, and Grunt and Groan, an anthology focussing on tales of sex in the workplace. He also co-edited the short story collection Down These Wicked Streets with partner-in-crime, D.L. Browne. Additional information about Kevin is available at his personal web site and on The Thrilling Detective Blog.