Author Appearance: Bouchercon 2021 – August 25-29, 2021
Persia Walker is a native New Yorker who has spent a good deal of her life living abroad. (How about 20 years of it?) That would include years in Germany, Brazil, and Poland.
And she’s had a lot of jobs. She’s worked as a radio announcer, news writer, freelance editor, book cover designer, real estate agent, and diplomat-cum-armchair detective. (All those? Yes, really.)
Her books reflect her fascination with history and her love of those old black-and-white movies, aka film noir. Her stories are set in New York City, most likely because, despite her attempts at settling elsewhere, she really is a New Yorker at heart.
“New York,” she says, “is like that old lover you can’t quite get rid of. You know the kind. Most everybody has or has had one. You keep trying to end the whole thing, permanently, but it just keeps drawing you back.”
On a personal note, she is back in the United States, living in the Washington DC-area, with one extremely lovable marmalade tabby, Sunday. She has no plans to move overseas ever again.
Then, again … Hmm.
Persia Walker es una neoyorquina nativa que ha vivido en el extranjero por gran parte de su vida (que tal 20 aῆos?), incluyendo bastantes aῆos en Alemania, Brazil y Polonia.
Y ha tenido muchos empleos diferentes. Ha trabajado como presentadora de radio, escritora de noticias, editora independiente, diseῆadora de portada de libros, agente de bienes raices, diplomatica y detective autonoma. (Todos esos? Si, todos).
Sus libros reflejan su fascinamiento con la historia y su amor a aquellas peliculas en blanco y negro, digamos film noir. Sus historias estan filmadas en la ciudad de Nueva York, quizas porque, a pesar de sus intentos de establecerse en otros lados, ella en verdad es neoyorquina de corazon.
“Nueva York”, dice ella, “es como ese viejo amante del cual no te puedes deshacer. Sabes a cual me refiero, casi todo el mundo tiene o ha tenido uno. Sigues tratando de terminar la relacion de una vez por todas, pero sigue enliandote.”
En lo personal, ella ya esta de regreso en los Estados Unidos y vive en Washington, DC, con un gatito extremedamente lindo y adorable, llamada Sunday. Ella no tiene ningun plan de mudarse al extranjero nunca mas.
Pero quien sabe…