Mike Brosnan is a Los Angeles native who spent much of the 80s hanging out in LA's eclectic punk/new wave scene and in the 90s worked at one of the city's great bookstores: The Bodhi Tree. He studied and worked in fiction, screenwriting and poetry (under Eloise Klein Healy, named LA’s first Poet Laureate in 2012). Brosnan spent time at the development departments of producer Edward R. Pressman, producer/director Oliver Stone and Miramax, and currently works at The Walt Disney Co. He is the co-author of the play, Celebrity (The Actor's Gang Theater, Hollywood) and his essay on Sherlockian character Irene Adler can be found in the book, Ladies, Ladies: The Women in the Life of Sherlock Holmes, Aventine Press. Brosnan is a proud member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and The Manuscript Academy.