Tod Goldberg

Tod Goldberg is a two-time Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including Gangsterland, The Low Desert (a Southwest Book of the Year) and Only Way Out. His short fiction and essays have been anthologized in Best American Mystery and Suspense and Best American Essays and appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Alta. Tod is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where he founded and directs the low-residency MFA program in creative writing and writing for the performing arts. For more information, visit www.todgoldberg.com.