Gay Mystery Authors

Ep:089 Dean Klinkenberg is a proud Midwesterner who has lived his entire life in Flyover Country, although in 7 different places. After he set aside his ambitions to become a professional bowler, he went to college in La Crosse, Wisconsin, then on to St. Louis where he earned a PhD, met his future husband, and found a city to call home. He settled into an academic career where he set out to make the world a somewhat better place for people living on the margins: the homeless, people struggling with drug addiction, people living with HIV. After a dozen years, though, and a career careening toward middle management, he’d had enough and quit to search for a new path. He was passionate about travel and the Mississippi River, so he combined those interests by writing about travel in the heart of the US. A few years later, he stretched his skills by writing his first novel, a mystery featuring openly gay travel writer named Frank Dodge. The series has grown to four books, and Klinkenberg looks forward to finding ne