Anya Lipska

BIO: Anya Lipska writes detective thrillers featuring Janusz Kiszka, private eye to London’s Polish community, and East End police detective DC Natalie Kershaw – a series which led to her being selected for Val McDermid’s New Blood Panel at the 2013 Harrogate Crime Festival. BBC Drama has just optioned the rights to her books for a possible TV series. She is a trained journalist and her day job is producing factual TV documentaries on the arts, history and science topics. Married to a Pole, Lipska lives in East London.

INTERESTS: Anya’s angles & interests include: the importance of ‘place’ in crime fiction, the immigrant – and outsider – viewpoint; European vs UK crime fiction; the importance of research; & women in crime fiction.