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| Gayle
Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh:
Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne,
2002), and the novels Self
Storage (Ballantine, 2008), Delta
Girls (Ballantine, 2010), and The
Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins, 2004) which
won Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for
Fiction of Social Engagement. Her first novel for young
people, My Life with the Lincolns (Henry
Holt, 2010), won a Silver Nautilus Book Award. |
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Aris Janigian is the author of three novels, Bloodvine (Heyday, 2005), Riverbig (Heyday, 2008), and This Angelic Land (West of West, 2012). He is also co-author along with April Greiman of Something from Nothing (Rotovision, 2002), a book on the philosophy of graphic design.
Janigian holds Ph.D. in psychology, and from 1993 to 2005 he was Senior Professor of Humanities at Southern California Institute of Architecture. |
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| Diane
Lefer is an author, playwright, and activist whose recent
books include the mystery novel, Nobody
Wakes Up Pretty (Rainstorm Press, 2012); the short-story
collection, California Transit (Sarabande,
2007), which won the Mary McCarthy Prize; and The
Blessing Next to the Wound (Lantern Books, 2010),
a non-fiction work co-authored with Colombian exile Hector
Aristizábal. Amnesty International recommended this
book as a selection for Banned Books Week. |
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| Héctor
Tobar is a Los Angeles-born writer and the author of
three books. His most recent novel, The
Barbarian Nurseries (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011),
won the 2012 California Book Award for Fiction and was a New
York Times Notable Book. He is also the author of the
novel The Tattooed Soldier (Delphinium,
1998) and the non-fiction book Translation
Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking
United States (Riverhead, 2006). |
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