JOSH PACHTER is the author of more than a hundred short crime stories, which have appeared in EQMM, AHMM, and many other periodicals and anthologies. His first novel, Dutch T(h)reat, was published by Genius Books in 2023, and his first chapter book for younger readers, First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet, was published by Level Best in 2024. He also edits anthologies and translates fiction from Dutch and other languages. In 2020, he received the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement.