Mary Monica Pulver

Mary Monica Pulver otherwise known as May Kuhfeld, Margaret Frazer, and Monica Ferris is an educator, lecturer public speaker, short story writer, and novelist from Indiana. She was born in Marshall, Indiana to homemaker Marie Therese Pulver and electrician Harry Gene. Monica would later get married to museum curator Albert Kuhfeld. She spent much of her childhood and young adulthood in Wisconsin, where she graduated from a Milwaukee High School. She then joined the US Navy and for six and half years practiced as a military journalist, two of which were in London. Pulver would later get to attend the University of Wisconsin to get her college degree. In 1983, she made her writing debut as Abbess of Deer Abbey, Margaret of Shaftesbury when she was a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Her first work was “Pass the Word,” a short story that was sold to “Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.” She has since gone on to sell more than twenty short stories to magazines and anthologies in France, Germany, Italy, and England. Monica Pulver has also had her work featured in prestigious anthologies such as “Silence of the Loons,” “The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives,” “Murder Most Crafty,” “The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits,” “Unholy Orders,” “The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives,” “Royal Whodunnits,” and “Shakespearean Mysteries.”