Victoria Patterson is the author of Drift, a collection of interlinked short stories that take place in Newport Beach, California, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. From Publishers Weekly’s starred review: “Patterson's unflinching account of the seedy side of a real-life Xanadu is frightening, immersive and wonderfully realized.” She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various literary journals, including The Southern Review, Santa Monica Review, and The Florida Review.

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