Christina Hoag’s short noir fiction has appeared in Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Black Cat Weekly, Shotgun Honey, Guilty Crime Story, All Due Respect, A Rock and a Hard Place, and Dark Yonder, as well as Crimeucopia, Black Beacon Mystery, and Vigilante Crime anthologies. One of her literary short stories was longlisted for The Commonwealth Foundation’s Short Story Prize 2025, placing in the top 2.5 percent of 7,360 entries. She is the author of noir novels Girl on the Brink, named Suspense magazine’s Best of YA; Skin of Tattoos, a Silver Falchion Award finalist; and The Blood Room, an Audible bestseller. A former journalist and Latin America correspondent, she lives in Los Angeles where she has taught creative writing to lifers in prison.