The Hook

TIM O'MARA was nominated for a Barry award for his debut novel Sacrifice Fly, about Raymond Donne, an ex-cop who now teaches in the same Williamsburg, Brooklyn, neighborhood he once policed. His novellas Smoked and Jammed appear in 2016 and 2018 crime trilogies Triple Shot and Three Strikes. O'Mara taught special education for thirty years in the public schools of New York City. He now teaches grown-up writers, incarcerated youth and adults, and still lives in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan with his wife and daughter. O'Mara recently finished curating the short-story crime anthology, Down to the River.