Anne Swardson, a native of Athens, Ohio, has an undergraduate degree in government from Cornell University and a master’s in journalism from Ohio University. After an internship in Paris following graduate school, she was hired by McGraw-Hill, then-owner of BusinessWeek, in Washington.

She then worked for the Dallas Morning News in Washington and was hired by the Washington Post’s business section. It was there that she met her husband, feature writer Charles Trueheart. The couple were foreign correspondents in Canada and then in France, where Swardson became European economic correspondent.

She left the Washington Post to be a Paris-based feature editor for Bloomberg News. There, she was part of teams that won awards from the Overseas Press Club, George Polk and Society of American Business Editors and Writers. A series she produced on Europe lagging the United States economically was a finalist for the Loeb Award.

She began writing mystery fiction about a decade ago and has published short stories in a Mystery Writers of America anthology, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Magazine and Mystery Tribune, among others. She is the co-winner of the Golden Fedora Award for a short story published in Noir Nation magazine.

Her blog, Planted in Paris, looks at her adopted city from the view of her two nationalities, American and French. She also is a longtime and passionate equestrian. Anne and Charlie’s two adult children, both bilingual, live in Berlin and Queens.