S. J. Rozan has won multiple awards for her fiction, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, Macavity, the Japanese Maltese Falcon, and the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of the Chin and Smith mystery series, including Paper Son, which is also available from Pegasus Crime. S. J. was born and raised in the Bronx and now lives in lower Manhattan.