Alison Minami is an MFA graduate student in fiction at the University of California at Riverside. Formerly a high school teacher, she has taught collaborative writing and performance workshops with The Asian American Writer's Workshop,
David Lopez is a native of Santa Ana, California. He received a B.A. in Screenwriting from Chapman University and is currently pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside.
Illuminating the Shadows: A Special Section Exploring the Concept of Noir and its Continuing Influence, with preface by Robin Russin.
Leonid Leonov was born in 1985 in Kiev, Ukraine. His family emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1990, and he spent his formative years outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since then, he has called Los Angeles his home
John Wenke teaches American literature and literary writing at Salisbury University. His books include J. D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction and Melville's Muse. He has published numerous stories, essays, chapters, and reviews. "The Divine Inert" will be part of an essay collection called Culture and Anarchy, Part Two.
Sara Green - Novel to Film: A Comparison of Double Indemnity and the Maltese Falcon
Sara Green grew up in Salt Lake City, and received her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Utah. She is currently an MFA student at the University of California, Riverside, where she studies playwriting.
Robin Russin - A Darkening World
Robin Russin is Associate Professor of Screenwriting at University of California, Riverside. He has written and directed extensively for film, TV and the theater. Robin co-authored the books Screenplay: Writing the Picture and Naked Playwriting, and received his A.B. at Harvard and graduate degrees from Oxford, Rhode Island School of Design, and University of California, Los Angeles.
Jessi Sundell Cramer - So Appealing, So Dangerous, So Lovely to Look At
Jessi Sundell Cramer is a tattoo artist, playwright, screenwriter and such. Her plays have been performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, California, and various points in between.