Claudia Mair Burney
Claudia is her first name, but she goes by Mair . . . and "Mair" rhymes with "fire." (She tries to keep her last name fairly uncomplicated.) Mair is the author of the popular Ragamuffin Diva blog — her personal journal exploring the challenges of broken believers. That blog led to Mair being discovered, and allowed her to contract the Amanda Bell Brown mystery series: Death, Deceit, and Some Smooth Jazz, Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man, and Saints, Suspicions, and a Ticking Clock.
Her work has also appeared in Discipleship Journal and The Handmaiden, and her young adult series, The Exorsistah, about a teenaged exorcist, is set to release the summer of 2008 with Simon & Schuster. Mair wants her fiction to feature the best of her blog: humor, unblinking honesty, and the courage to allow God's strength to be made perfect in one's personal weakness.
Claudia Mair lives in Michigan with her husband, five of their seven children, and a moody hamster.