Angela Zeman is author of The Witch and the Borscht Pearl, a Mrs. Risk mystery novel, published by Pendulum Press, available in trade paperback from most bookstores and Amazon.  Angela is currently writing a new thriller and has begun planning three new short story series. She also co-authors non-fiction articles about the mystery field with her husband, Barry Zeman, an acknowledged authority on the history of the mystery and book collecting. Although the Mrs. Risk series takes place on Long Island, New York, the Zemans live in New York City.

Angela organized and edited the 2001 Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Awards Annual for their May 3 banquet and chaired the 2001 Best Short Story committee. Over the years she has served MWA in various capacities, most notably on the New York Regional and National Board of Directors and twice as Chairperson of the Edgar Symposium.

"Skip Trace," in Sex, Lies, and Private Eyes, an anthology edited by Michael Bracken, to be published in summer 2008.

"Green Heat," in the 2004 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year, edited by Otto Penzler and Nelson DeMille, to be published in September 2004.

"Evanesce," translated into Spanish, in an anthology by Adriana González Mateos entitled Say Something to Break This Silence. The anthology was put together as an homage to Raymond Carver. Participants are writers from the United States, Latin America, Brazil, Spain, and France. It is being published in fall 2004 by Páginas de Espuma of Spain, and Lectorum of Mexico, and the editor is Mtro. Guillermo Samperio, Ad'Hoc Ingeniería Cultural, S.C.

"Lah Tee Dah," in Show Business is Murder, an anthology edited by Stuart Kaminsky, to be published in August 2004.

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"Green Heat," in A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, an anthology edited by Jeffery Deaver. Prime Crime, 2003.

From Publishers Weekly, January 20, 2003 issue, review of A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime: "Only a few stories generate enough heat to warm a reader's heart...Angela Zeman's 'Green Heat' brings a Chicago bounty hunter out of the cold and into the sweltering heat of West Virginia, where he gets a surprising education."

From Beth Fedyn's review of A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime in the April/May 2003 issue of Mystery News magazine: "Bad things happen when the temperature climbs. And that's a good thing for fans of mystery short fiction. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime presents a good collection of 20 all-new stories and it introduced me to some skillful new authors. [In Angela Zeman's story, "Green Heat"]...Tyree Garcia's investigation in Rushin River Hollow is worth the effort."

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"The Witch and Uncle Harry," in The Night Awakens, a Mystery Writers of America anthology edited by Mary Higgins Clark. Pocket Star Books Mystery, February 2000. Still in print.

From The Charlotte Austin Review Ltd., South African Editor Merilyn Tomkins says: "'The Witch and Uncle Harry,' by Angela Zeman [in The Night Awakens: The Penguin Book of American Suspense Stories, edited by Mary Higgins Clark], is a clever and entertaining mystery story."

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Non-Mrs. Risk short story:
"Hello?" in Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder: A Collection of New Mysteries for Mother's Day, an anthology edited by Nancy Pickard, Berkley Prime Crime, May 1999. Reprinted in mass market format in April 2000. Still in print.

From Publishers Weekly, April 12, 1999 issue, review of Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder: "A lonely, handicapped woman becomes phone pals with a charming killer in Angela Zeman's 'Hello?'--magical .... the recipes--including one for [Zeman's] Mom's Brandied Apple Babies--provide a nice bonus."