LIA MATERA           PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE   1987 - Present     Writer     Novels   Havana Twist 1998, Simon & Schuster; 1999, Pocket Star   Star Witness 1997, Simon & Schuster; 1998, Pocket Star   Last Chants 1996, Simon & Schuster; 1997, Pocket Books   Designer Crimes 1994, Simon & Schuster; 1995, Pocket Books   Face Value 1993, Simon & Schuster; 1994, Pocket Books   Prior Convictions 1991, Bantam Books; 1992, Ballantine             Edgar Allan Poe Award and Anthony Award Nominee   A Hard Bargain 1992, Simon & Schuster; 1992, Ballantine   The Good Fight 1989, Simon & Schuster; 1990, Ballantine        Anthony Award and Macavity Award Nominee   Hidden Agenda 1988, Bantam Books; 1992, Ballantine     The Smart Money 1988, Bantam Books; 1991, Ballantine   A Radical Departure 1988, Bantam Books; 1991, Ballantine       Edgar Allan Poe Award and Anthony Award Nominee   Where Lawyers Fear To Tread 1987, Bantam Books; 1991, Ballantine; 1999, Five Star Press              Anthony Award and Macavity Award Nominee           Anthologies     Counsel For The Defense And Other Stories       Nine original short stories, reprinted; 2000, Five Star Press   Irreconcilable Differences Lia Matera, editor; original stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Amanda Cross,       Jeffery Deaver, Edna Buchanan, and 16 other contemporary writers;       1999, HarperCollins; 2000, Avon Books     Short Stories     "Dream Lawyer"       Diagnosis: Dead, ed. Jonathan Kellerman, Pocket Books, 1999       The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman,           Forge, 2000   "If It Can't Be True"       Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins, 1999;           Avon Books, 2001   "Dead Drunk"       Winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award,            Best Short Story of 1996       Guilty As Charged, ed. Scott Turow, Pocket Books, 1996       The Year's Twenty-five Finest Crime and Mystery Stories,            ed. Joan Hess, Carroll & Graf, 1997       A Century of Noir, ed. Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins,            Penguin Putnam, 2002   "Performance Crime"        Women on the Case, ed. Sarah Paretsky, Doubleday, 1996; Dell,1997   "The River Mouth"       The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins, 1994;             Harper Paperbacks, 1995      A Moment on the Edge, ed. Elizabeth George, HarperCollins, 2004   "Do Not Resuscitate"      Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley Books, 1995;           Berkley Books, 1997   "Easy Go"       Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi and Marilyn Wallace,            Doubleday Books, 1992; Bantam Books, 1993   "Destroying Angel"       Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley Books, 1990   "Counsel For the Defense"       Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley Books, 1989     1981 - 1982    Teaching Fellow                   STANFORD UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL               Stanford, California                      Courses Taught:  Legal Writing and Research                                            Moot Court               EDUCATION          1981       JurisDoctor Degree HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW       San Francisco, California   Admitted to California Bar, 1981   Editor-in-Chief, 1980 - 1981 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly   1978        B.A., Literature                          UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA                          Santa Cruz, California