Wally Rudolph

Born in Canada to Jamaican immigrant parents and raised in Texas, Wally Rudolph smoked marijuana for the first time at the age of fourteen. The joint, rolled from the Book of Revelations of a pocket sized Bible, was the start of a fifteen year affair with illicit drugs that took him back and forth across the American Midwest. Along the way, he studied fiction and poetry with Jack Butler, Pulitzer finalist for Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock, and Walt Whitman Award Winner and former NEA fellow, Greg Glazner. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, including Street Kings, Bang Bang, Sons of Anarchy and most recently, Hawaii 5-0. More of his fiction can be found in the literary journals, Lines+Stars, Palooka, The Brooklyner, and Prospect Park Books 2013 Fiction Anthology, Literary:Pasadena, among others. His debut novel, Four Corners (Counterpoint/Soft Skull), was published in 2014. His second novel, Mighty, Mighty (Counterpoint/Soft Skull), was published in 2015.