Chris Goff

Chris Goff is an American bestselling and award-winning mystery and thriller novelist. She writes the bestselling “Bird Watchers Mystery” series and the “Raisa Jordan” international thriller series of novels. Her debut international thriller novel was “Dark Waters”, which was a critically acclaimed book that introduced Raisa Jordan, a strong willed intelligence agent working for American interests abroad. She has been a winner of the Best Crime Fiction Audio-book at the Anthony Awards, won the 2002 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Award, and got a nomination for the 2016 Colorado Book Award. Her Birdwatchers Mystery series, which was published in Japan and the UK, won the Colorado Authors League Award and a nomination for two WILLA Literary Awards. She first got into writing in the nonfiction world when she worked for several national, regional, and local magazines and newspapers in Summit County, Colorado. She would later become editor at Chockstone Press specializing in editing ice and rock climbing guides, before taking up a job with Morehouse Publishing Group doing graphics for “Living the Good News”. In addition to her writing, she has been actively involved in teaching and has been a tutor at workshops at the University of Colorado, and the Colorado Free University. She is an active member of several writer guilds, and served in national and regional boards of the Executive Council of International Crime Writers Association, and the Mystery Writers of America.