Megan Abbott is an Edgar-winning author of both crime fiction and non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction. Born on August 21, 1971, in the Detroit area, she is a distinguished American writer whose work reimagines classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspective.

Her notable novels include "Die a Little," "Queenpin," "The Song Is You," "Bury Me Deep," "The End of Everything," "Dare Me," "The Fever," "You Will Know Me," and "Give Me Your Hand." Abbott's writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Abbott is also a talented television writer and producer. She has served as co-showrunner, writer, and executive producer of "DARE ME," a TV show adapted from her novel, and was a staff writer on HBO's "THE DEUCE."

She graduated from the University of Michigan and earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University, where she has taught, along with teaching positions at SUNY and the New School University. In 2013-14, she was the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss.

Abbott's works have been nominated for numerous awards, including three Edgar Awards, the Hammett Prize, the Shirley Jackson Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Folio Prize.

She also authored a non-fiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and edited A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction.