MB Dabney is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in numerous local and national publications, including the Indianapolis Recorder, where he currently serves as the manager of the newsroom.
A native of Indianapolis, Michael spent decades as a reporter working at Business Week magazine, United Press International and the Associated Press, the Indianapolis Star, and The Philadelphia Tribune, the nation’s oldest continuously published Black newspaper, where he won awards for editorial writing.
He has co-edited two anthologies — Decades of Dirt: Murder, Mystery and Mayhem from the Crossroads of Crime; and MURDER 20/20 — and has published numerous short mystery stories, including Miss Hattie Mae’s Secret (Decades of Dirt), Callipygian (The Fine Art of Murder), Killing Santa Claus (Homicide for the Holidays), and Black on Black in Black (The Fish That Got Away: The 2021 Sisters in Crime Guppy Anthology).
He was a co-writer and co-producer of Deadbeat, a one-act play that debuted at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival in 2018.
His first novel is An Untidy Affair, A David Blaise Mystery, and a prequel, A Deadly Game, will be published later this year.
The father of two adult daughters, Michael lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Angela.