Author Randall Silvis

Best known for his critically acclaimed Ryan DeMarco Mystery Series, Randall Silvis is the multi-genre author of 21 novels, three story collections, and two books of creative nonfiction. He was the first Pennsylvanian to win the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and was chosen for that award by author Joyce Carol Oates. 

Also a prize-winning playwright and produced screenwriter, Silvis’s work has appeared on Best of the Year lists from the New York Times, the Toronto Globe & Mail, SfSite.com, Strand magazine, and the International Association of Crime Writers, and has been hailed as “masterful” not only by the New York Times Book Review but also by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Mystery Scene magazine, and several other review sources. His two novels from 2017 (Two Days Gone and Only the Rain) were Amazon #1 Bestsellers in Psychological Suspense. Other awards include two NEA Literature fellowships and a Doctor of Letters degree for "distinguished literary achievement."