Theresa Schwegel
Theresa Schwegel was born and raised in the Chicago area where she received her Bachelor’s in Communication, Magna Cum Laude, from Loyola University.
While working on her Masters in Film/Screenwriting at Chapman University in California, Ms. Schwegel covered scripts for an Academy Award-winning production house and co-founded a small theater company where she wrote, produced, directed and acted in a number of shows, her favorites always David Mamet’s.
At Chapman, under the guidance of her teacher and mentor Leonard Schrader, Schwegel rewrote her thesis screenplay OFFICER DOWN as a novel. The book was published by St. Martin’s Minotaur and went on to win the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel.
Currently at work on her fourth book, Schwegel continues to dig deep into the lives of her Chicago cops, finding their closest relationships are often the most dangerous of all.
Fiction