Los Angeles Noir (31 page)

N
EAL
P
OLLACK’S
memoir,
Alternadad
, was published by Pantheon in early 2007. The editor of
Chicago Noir,
Pollack lives in Los Angeles with his family. His website and blog,
www.nealpollack.com
, are generally informative and amusing.

C
HRISTOPHER
R
ICE
is the
New York Times
best-selling author of three novels, mostly recently
Light Before Day.
A Lambda Literary Award—winner, he is also a regular columnist for the
Advocate
and is currently a visiting faculty member at the graduate writing program of Otis College of Art and Design. He lives in West Hollywood. For more information, visit
www.christopherricebooks.com
.

B
RIAN
A
SCALON
R
OLEY
, a Los Angeles native, is the author of the novel
American Son
, which received the 2003 Association of Asian American Studies Prose Book Award. It was a
New York Times
Notable Book, one of the
Los Angeles Times’
Best Books of the Year, and a finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. More information can be found at
www.brianroley.com
.

L
IENNA
S
ILVER
was born in Russia, and immigrated to the United States before Perestroyka came to the rescue. In Los Angeles, she began translating plays and screenplays, and cowrote a project for British Screen International. Her short stories have received numerous honorary awards, and she is working on a novel about contemporary Russia.

S
USAN
S
TRAIGHT
was born in Riverside, where she still lives with her family. She has published six novels. Her latest,
A Million Nightingales
(Pantheon, 2006), set during slavery, is the first of a trilogy about the characters who appear in “The Golden Gopher.”

H
ÉCTOR
T
OBAR
is the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the author of
Translation Nation
and
The Tattooed
Soldier
. Born in L.A., he has been editor of the bilingual San Francisco newspaper
El Tecolote
and features editor at the
LA Weekly
, and he has written for the
New Yorker
, the
Nation,
and other publications. He now reports for the
Los Angeles Times
from Mexico City, and is married with three children.

D
IANA
W
AGMAN
is the author of three novels and the film
Delivering Milo
. She is the recipient of the 2001 PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction. She teaches in the film department at California State University, Long Beach.

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