C. L. Pauwels is an author, teacher, editor, assistant director of a writer’s workshop, literary citizen, mother, grandmother, and wife. Her interests outside writing include healthcare, equal rights and climate change and her involvement with local government. Her writing is diverse as well, ranging from essays to short stories and novels.
Her novel, Forty & Out, takes place in Toledo where a serial killer has been targeting women on their 40th birthday. The book follows the newly assigned homicide detective as she tries to prevent the body count from increasing. Her desire to solve the case heightens as the killer targets the detective’s sister.
Some of CL Pauwels other works include:
- Unwelcome Ties
- Burned Bridges
- “One Sadistic Muse.” Mock Turtle ‘zine. (Dayton, OH). Fall 2013. (27).
- “Popcorn Memories.” Flights. Dayton, OH: Sinclair Community College, Fall 2015.
- “When I’m 64.” Hags on Fire, Winter Solstice 2022
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