Violette Malan

Violette Malan is a Canadian fantasy fiction author with Spanish and Polish roots. She is the co-founder of the two-day event “Scene of the Crime Festival on Wolfe Island” that focuses and celebrates Canadian crime fiction. She organizes and gives the writing workshop at the festival and also acts as one of the judges of the “Wolfe Island Prize” for new fiction. Malan is the editor of a mystery and crime fiction anthology named “Dead in the Water” alongside Therese Greenwood. Most of the anthology features stories set around the largest of Canada’s water bodies. Violette started out writing short stories and touched down running when she won the “Crime Writers of Canada Bloody Woods Conference’s Bony Pete” award with her story “Brush Off.” She has had her fiction published in several anthologies that include “Crime Spree” the noir anthology, the “Ladies Killing Circle” and “Over My Dead Body” a magazine. She has also dabbled in erotica and had some of her work published in “Penthouse Magazine.” Malan’s first venture into fantasy fiction was with “Mirror Prince,” the first novel of her “Mirror Prince” series that she first published in 2006.