Back in the sixties while growing up, I voraciously read my parents' books in our Brooklyn apartment.  My parents worked hard and when I graduated high school, I remember that the very next day I got on the A train to go to my job in the city.     

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I later enrolled in the ACE Program at Queens College-CUNY and earned my B.A. in Literature.  Currently I am working toward an M.A., CRJ, at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY.  The master's program at John Jay puts me in touch with true professionals in criminal justice studies and analysis, and it is transforming me hopefully into a better criminal history writer.  

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I continue to contribute crime articles to "Informer" Magazine, and blog for "Writers of Wrongs," a blog post edited by Tom Hunt.   Formerly I contributed to "On The Spot," edited by the late Rick Mattix. 

 

My current book in progress is a study of the ordeal of an accused defendant named Anna Antonio -- her arrest, conviction and capital execution in Sing Sing in 1934 -- which was a miscarriage of justice.   A shocking, brutal travesty that should never have happened -- but it did happen -- in the Empire State's dark days of the Depression.  

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Archived articles can be found on websites: Dillingerswomen.com   

Lucianotrial1936.com

 

To conclude, I do conduct slide show/lecture events in libraries and historical societies.  If you would like me to speak at your historical or library event, please contact me via the form on this website.  Sincerely,    

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- Ellen Poulsen