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Kelli Stanley (b. 1964) is an American author of historical mystery-thrillers. Her first novel, Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) (released in July, 2008) is the first of a proposed series (The Arcturus Series). Nox Dormienda won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award for Best Historical Mystery of 2008 at the mystery conference Left Coast Crime in March, 2009.

The title of Stanley's sequel to her first novel is Maledictus (Cursed). Nox Dormienda takes its title from a line by the Roman poet Catullus in the poem known as Catullus 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia ...).

Stanley's second novel will be published by Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur in early 2010. The working title is Rice Bowl, and the setting is 1940 San Francisco.

Stanley holds a Master's Degree in Classics from San Francisco State University, is published in that field, and has lectured internationally at academic conferences. She lived and attended high school in northern Mendocino/southern Humboldt counties in northern California.

Her first published short story, a prequel to Nox Dormienda, was published in the webzine Hardluck Stories in 2007, and was nominated for a Spinetinger Award that same year.

A member of the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, International Association of Crime Writers, and Private Eye Writers of America, Stanley has labeled her first series as "Roman noir," a pun on the French literary term for “black novel,” calling it a combination of historical setting and hardboiled style. She credits Raymond Chandler as her greatest writing influence.