Mary Anna Evans is a lifelong music-lover and, after 18 years, considers herself an adopted Floridian. Her first novel, Artifacts, received the Benjamin Franklin Award for best small press mystery, as well as the Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Award. Publishers Weekly said of Artifacts and its protagonist Faye Longchamp, "Few corners of Florida remain unmined for crime fiction and now, happily, there's one less.... Readers should welcome this strong new sleuth." Relics, second in the Faye Longchamp archaeological mystery series, was an IMBA bestseller, and it has been nominated for the SIBA book award, given by independent booksellers in the southeast. Publishers Weekly said of Relics, "Evans' second archeological mystery i s every bit as good as her debut, Artifacts."

Mary Anna's short fiction has appeared in A Kudzu Christmas, Plots With Guns, and North Florida Noir. Her next novel, Effigies, will be published by Poisoned Pen Press in February 2007. Mary Anna and David live in Florida with their three children, approximately 20 musical instruments, and a cat. Her song for "Land of the Flowers" came in second place in the Florida 2006 Best Folk Song contest.