Kris Neri

About Kris Neri

Kris Neri’s latest novel, HOPSCOTCH LIFE, featuring quirky protagonist Plum Tardy, is a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award winner.

She also writes the Tracy Eaton mysteries and the Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggerty magical series.

Neri’s novels have been finalists of such prestigious awards as the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, Lefty, and others.

She is a two-time winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and a three-time Lefty Award finalist for her humorous novels.

She teaches writing for the Writers’ Program of the UCLA Extension School and other organizations.

Kris and her husband also owned and operated The Well Red Coyote bookstore in Sedona, AZ for ten years. Today they make their home in Silver City, NM.