Lori B. Duff is a lawyer, judge, and award-winning writer. She’s a past-president of the Georgia Council for Municipal Court Judges [CMuCJ] and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists [NSNC]. A two-time winner of the Georgia Bar Journal’s annual fiction competition, she has also won the Foreword Indies Gold Medal for Humor, the NSNC’s annual column contest, and the CMuCJ’s President’s Award as well as the Glen Ashman Educational Achievement Award. Her novel, Devil’s Defense, is a finalist in the American Book Fest Best Book Awards in the General Fiction and Thriller/Adventure categories. Her novella, Broken Things, won the Georgia Independent Author of the Year Award for Literary Fiction.