About Hilary
My debut novel, THE DAMAGE DONE, won the 2011 Anthony Award for Best First Mystery, and the Crimespree Award for Best First Mystery; it was also a finalist for the Macavity and Arthur Ellis awards. The sequel, THE NEXT ONE TO FALL, will be published by Forge in February 2012.
My short stories are featured in anthologies such as BEAT TO A PULP: ROUND ONE, A PRISONER OF MEMORY & 24 OF THE YEAR’S FINEST CRIME & MYSTERY STORIES, and THUGLIT PRESENTS BLOOD, GUTS & WHISKEY. They also appear in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Beat to a Pulp, Crimespree, Crimefactory, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir. My story “Insatiable,” originally published by Beat to a Pulp, won the 2010 Spinetingler Award for Best Short Story.
Before I turned to a life of crime, I was a travel writer. I got my start in journalism in 1995, when I interned at Harper’s Magazine in New York. After I returned to my hometown, Toronto, I was on staff at Canadian Living magazine for two years before going freelance. Since then, I’ve written 18 nonfiction books (17 of them travel guidebooks for Frommer’s) and hundreds of articles for magazines such as Discover, Martha Stewart Weddings, and American Archaeology. I was born and raised in Toronto but have lived in New York since October 2001.
INTERVIEWS
Bouchercon 2011: “Julia Spencer-Fleming Interviews Anthony Award Best First Novel Nominee Hilary Davidson,” June 28, 2011
Mulholland Books: “A Conversation With Hilary Davidson and Brad Parks,” February 11, 2011
Surrey Now: “A Long Road to Success in Fiction” by Carolyn Cooke, December 7, 2010
Day Labor, the CrimeFactory blog (video): “Video Interview—Hilary Davidson” by Keith Rawson, November 9, 2010
Gadling: “Q&A With Travel and Fiction Writer Hilary Davidson” by Alex Robertson Textor, October 28, 2010
University of Toronto Magazine: “A Walk on the Wild Side” by Suzanna Chang, October 18, 2010
Do Some Damage (audio): “Interview With Hilary Davidson, Author of The Damage Done” by Steve Weddle, October 18, 2010 (available as a free iTunes podcast or a download from the website)
Pulp Serenade: “Interview With Hilary Davidson,” October 1, 2010
The ASJA Monthly, October 2010: “Writers on Writing: Crime Writer Hilary Davidson,” by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett (PDF)
Vince Keenan: “Q&A: Hilary Davidson,” September 30, 2010
Pop Culture Nerd: “Nerd Chat With Hilary Davidson,” September 27, 2010
Chin Wag at The Slaughterhouse: “Interview With Hilary Davidson” by Richard Godwin, July 18, 2010
