About Maya Corrigan

My full name is Mary Ann Roman Corrigan. I write crime stories under the name of Maya Corrigan. I owe my love of mysteries to my 4th grade teacher, who gave me her Nancy Drew collection, and to my mother, who brought home stacks of detective books from the library.

Before writing crime fiction, I taught college classes in writing, American literature, and crime fiction. I also wrote nonfiction and designed courses for online learners. I live in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., an easy drive from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the setting for my Five-Ingredient Mysteries. When not reading and writing, I enjoy theater, travel, trivia, cooking, and crosswords.

I am a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and served as president of the Sisters in Crime Chesapeake Chapter.

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Media Bio

Maya (Mary Ann) Corrigan combines her passion for food and detective stories in her Five-Ingredient Mysteries: By Cook or by Crook, Scam Chowder, Final Fondue, The Tell-Tale Tarte, S’more Murders, Crypt Suzette, Gingerdead Man, Bake Offed, and A Parfait Crime. The series features a café manager and her livewire grandfather, the Codger Cook, who solve murders in a historic town near the Chesapeake Bay. Each book has five suspects, five clues, and Granddad’s five-ingredient recipes. Ms. Corrigan lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. She has been featured in First for Women and Woman’s World. Before writing crime fiction, she taught American literature, writing, and detective fiction at Northern Virginia Community College and Georgetown University.

Interviews on Podcasts and Videos

Cozy Quartet Interview by John Charles of Poisoned Pen Book, January 2023.
Winnie Archer, Maya Corrigan, Amanda Flower, and Sherry Harris discuss their latest mysteries.

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View the book tube interview: Killing Time with Maya.

Video of Batter Off Dead panel at the 2022 Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival.

Video of Food for Thought: Culinary Mysteries, at the 2021 Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival. The panel features Catherine Bruns, Maya Corrigan, Gayle Leeson, and Shawn Reilly Simmons, March 2021.