WEBINAR: Con Women and Lady Killers with Tori Telfer

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Women can have any role in a crime story, including the villain. Who are some of history's notorious lady killers and con women? What parts of their stories are legacy, even myth? What do their stories tell us about the complex reality of female aggression and predation? We'll talk with Tori Telfer, author of Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History and Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion, about a few spectacularly bad guys who just happen to be women.

Bio: Tori Telfer graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing. She was the recipient of both the Edwin L. Shuman Best Senior Honors Thesis in the English Major in Writing Award and the Edwin L. Shuman Fiction Award; an NU Undergraduate Research Symposium award; the J.G Nolan Scholarship and the Hulda & Maurice Rothschild Endowment for academic excellence; and a membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

After college, she worked in children's publishing and teaching before going freelance. Over her 8+ years of freelance experience, she has written marketing copy for everything from specialty manicure tools to indie theater companies, worked with CEOs and startup founders as the editor-in-chief of Hippo Thinks to help them publish in places like Forbes and Fast Company, edited numerous PhD dissertations, written viral reported pieces, and been featured several times on longform.org. She has also done plenty of catering, which she not-so-secretly adores.