We are happy to announce that Paul Doiron will be awarded this year's CrimeMaster Award and will talk about his accomplished career at the Maine Crime Wave on September 27.

Paul Doiron is the best-selling author of the Mike Bowditch series—fifteen crime novels and one short story collection—set in the Maine woods. His first book, The Poacher’s Son, won the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award and was nominated for an Edgar for Best First Novel. His second, Trespasser, won the 2012 Maine Literary Award. His novelette “Rabid” was a finalist for the 2019 Edgar in the Best Short Story category. Paul’s twelfth novel, Dead by Dawn, won the New England Society’s 2022 Book Award for Fiction, as well as his second Maine Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Barry Award. His books have been translated into 11 languages. Paul’s latest book, Skin and Bones, will be released on May 13 and features a collection of eight original short stories from the Mike Bowditch series.

A native of Maine, Paul attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English, and he holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Paul also has a long history with the MWPA—he worked as a 23 year-old membership coordinator and then became newsletter editor before heading off to grad school. And then he returned to serve for a couple of years as executive director before leaving to edit Down East. He is a former member of the Maine Arts Commission and past chair of the Maine Humanities Council. He is also a Registered Maine Guide specializing in fly fishing and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife Kristen Lindquist.