Edith Maxwell / Maddie Day
Edith Maxwell / Maddie Day
Edith Maxwell has always been a writer. She made her living writing technical documentation in the software industry, wrote features and essays as a free-lance journalist, edited medical texts, and produced several published articles and a doctoral dissertation in the field of linguistics. And before that, she wrote fiction and news articles, with her first paid published story appearing at age 9. Creating fiction, long and short, is what makes her happiest (although she wrote a prose poem about her late father that she’s rather proud of).
She is a lifetime member of Sisters in Crime and is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She is also a long-time member of the Society of Friends (Quaker) at Amesbury Friends Meeting. Her art story was featured in the National Endowment for the Arts 50th anniversary celebration.
As a former organic farmer, Edith knows the language and tensions of someone like Cam Flaherty, the farmer in the Local Foods mysteries. Edith lived in southern Indiana for five years and loved the slow pace and language of its natives, so it made sense to set the Country Store Mysteries there. She taught independent childbirth classes and worked as a doula for some years, giving her insight into the life of an historical midwife as portrayed in the Agatha Award-winning Quaker Midwife Mysteries. And her Cozy Capers Book Group series comes straight out of both her imagination and several solo writing retreats on Cape Cod.
Edith lives in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but is originally a fourth-generation Californian. She has two grown sons and lives with her beau in an antique house where she writes, cooks, gardens, and wastes time on Facebook. She also writes under the pen name Maddie Day.
