Therese Greenwood has been named a Finalist for the 2025 Award of Excellence for Best Short Story from the Crime Writers of Canada. It is Greenwood’s fourth nomination for Canada’s top mystery writing prize. Greenwood’s 2025 nomination is for “Hatchcheck Bingo,” a women-centred story set in the Prohibition era. Greenwood’s story appeared in Carrick Publishing’s 2024 crime fiction collection The Thirteenth Letter, nominated for a 2025 Derringer Award for Best Anthology.

Therese Greenwood’s memoir, What You Take With You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home, published by the University of Alberta Press, was a Finalist for Nonfiction Book of the Year Award from the Book Publishers of Alberta. Her short crime fiction has appeared across Canada and the U.S. She won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for “Buck’s Last Ride” in Kill As You Go, her short story collection from Calgary’s Coffin Hop Press. She is a three-time Finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award, Canada’s top mystery writing prize, and won the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Flash Fiction Contest for her short historical fiction. She has co-edited two short crime fiction anthologies. Her website is www.therese.ca.