Aimee Bender

The Most Romantic Story Ever Told

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Seth Greenland’s first memoir, A Kingdom of Tender Colors, will be published in 2020 by Europa Editions. He is the author of five novels. His 1997 play Jungle Rot won the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund for New American Plays Award and the American Theater Critics Association Award. He was a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love.

Seth Greenland

<h4>Janet Fitch is a Los Angeles native and the author of&nbsp;White Oleander&nbsp;and&nbsp;Paint It Black. Her latest novel is a two-part epic, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral.</h4>

Janet Fitch

<h4>Paul Mandelbaum teaches the literature of Los Angeles at Emerson College’s L.A. Center. His books include the novels Garrett in Wedlock and Adriane on the Edge and the anthology 12 Short Stories and Their Making.</h4>

Paul Mandelbaum

Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of four novels, including&nbsp;<a href="https://lailalalami.com/the-moors-account/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Moor’s Account</a>, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel,&nbsp;<a href="https://lailalalami.com/the-other-americans/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Other Americans</a>, was a national best seller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the&nbsp;Washington Post,&nbsp;The Nation,&nbsp;Harper’s, the&nbsp;Guardian, and the&nbsp;New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a full professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. Her new book, a work of nonfiction called&nbsp;<a href="https://lailalalami.com/conditional-citizens/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Conditional Citizens</a>, was published by Pantheon in September 2020.&nbsp;

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