Toni Plummer

Editor at Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press

Toni Plummer is an Editor at Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, where she acquires fiction and nonfiction. She is always on the lookout for talented new authors and is especially interested in crime fiction and mysteries, including cozies, thrillers, private eye novels, police procedurals, and historical mysteries. She is also looking for women’s and multicultural fiction, from contemporary, humorous novels to sweeping, heart-wrenching family epics. Some of her authors include New York Times bestselling author Vikas Swarup, Anthony Award-winning author and Edgar finalist Sophie Littlefield, California Book Award winner Michael Jaime-Becerra, Edgar Award winner David Handler, Anthony Award winner Bill Crider, RITA Award winner Caridad Ferrer, and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship.

Toni attended the University of Notre Dame and the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She is the latest winner of the Miguel Mármol Prize for a first work of fiction by a Latino author, and her short story collection, The Bolero of Andi Rowe, is being published in June 2011 by Curbstone Books. Toni is a member of the Macondo Foundation, an association of socially-engaged writers.