Aptaker, Ann: - Ann Aptaker's debut novel, Criminal Gold, was a Goldie Award finalist. Her second book, Tarnished Gold, won a Lambda Literary Award and Goldie Award. Her Cantor Gold crime series celebrates her favorite themes: dangerous women and crime and mystery fiction. Like her protagonist, Ann resides in her beloved hometown, New York, where she is an adjunct professor of art and art history at New York Institute of Technology.