P.A. De Voe is an anthropologist with a PhD in Asian studies and a specialty in China. She has authored several stories featuring the Ming Dynasty: Deadly Relations and No Way to Die in the Ming Dynasty Mystery series; The Mei-hua Trilogy: Hidden, Warned, and Trapped; Lotus Shoes, a Mei-hua short story; and Judge Lu’s Case Files, a collection of short stories. Warned won a Silver Falchion Award for Best International Mystery; Trapped was nominated for an Agatha Award and was a finalist for a Silver Falchion. Her short story, The Immortality Mushroom, (a Judge Lu story) was in the Anthony Award winning anthology Murder Under the Oaks edited by Art Taylor.