Debellegarde, Tina: - Tina deBellegarde's debut novel, Winter Witness, the first in the Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery series, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel, a Silver Falchion Award, and a Chanticleer Mystery & Mayhem Award. Reviewers have called Tina the Louise Penny of the Catskills. Her story Tokyo Stranger appears in the Mystery Writers of America anthology When a Stranger Comes to Town edited by Michael Koryta. Tina's short fiction also appears in The Best New England Crime Stories. She is the vice-president of the Upper Hudson Chapter of Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America and Writers in Kyoto. She lives in Catskill, New York, with her husband Denis and their cat Shelby where they tend to their beehives, harvest shiitake mushrooms, and cultivate their vegetable garden. She travels to Japan regularly to visit her son Alessandro.