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Ruth Setton and Katherine Ramsland -- two acclaimed Lehigh Valley writers -- tell ghost stories that inspired paranormal elements for their fiction. Come and hear about the spark they found in tales told in the dark!
About Ruth: Born in Morocco, Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of the novels, The Road to Fez, and Zigzag Girl—which won Grand Prize in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition and First Prize in the Daphne du Maurier Awards. Her TV pilot based on Zigzag Girl won First Prize in the LA Crime and Horror Film Festival. She has taught Creative Writing at Lehigh University and on Semester at Sea. An NEA fellow, whose award-winning fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies, she writes a monthly newsletter for creatives, “Tips, Tricks & Tea with Ruth,” at www.ruthsetton.substack.com
About Katherine: With her Nut Cracker Investigations series, Katherine Ramsland injects her expertise in forensic psychology into her fiction. She consults for coroners, trains homicide investigators, and has appeared as an expert on more than 250 crime documentaries. She was an executive producer on Murder House Flip, A&E’s Confession of a Serial Killer: BTK, and ID’s The Serial Killer’s Apprentice (now on HBO). The author of more than 2,000 articles and 73 books, including I Scream Man and How to Catch a Killer, she also has a Substack and pens a blog for Psychology Today.
