Steve Erickson is the author of eight previous novels as well as two nonfiction books about politics and popular culture that have been published in ten languages around the world. Currently he’s the editor of the national literary journal Black Clock, published by the California Institute of the Arts where he teaches, and he also writes about film for Los Angeles magazine, for which he’s been nominated for the National Magazine Award. He has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.