Tonya Mitchell writes gothic historical fiction. She is the author of Needle and Bone and the bestselling The Arsenic Eater’s Wife. Her debut, A Feigned Madness, won the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award and the Kops-Fetherling International Book Award for Best New Voice in Historical Fiction. She is a member of WFWA, HNSNA, and the Authors Guild. She lives in the Mid West.