Trisha Sugarek
Trisha Sugarek has enjoyed a twenty-year career writing stage plays, (after leaving an acting/directing career that spanned decades). She also writes fiction, true crime, and poetry. She expanded her body of work to include five children’s books that started as children’s plays. (Concord Theatricals, Publisher) Fifteen novels, of which eleven are a series of true crime mysteries. She has written a collection of 35+, ten-minute plays for the classroom and is a blogger and book reviewer for major publishing houses. Trisha lives in Savannah, Georgia with Petey, a Yorkie mix, and their two cats, Fiona and Barcode. All were rescued and adopted by Trisha.
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