Gary Phillips has been a security guard, a printer, a shade tree mechanic, a labour union organiser, a radio talk show host, a foundation staffer and a community activist for over 30 years. Jervey Tervalon is the author of All the Trouble You Need, Understand This (winner of the 1994 New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club), and the acclaimed Los Angeles Times bestseller Dead Above Ground. Joseph Mattson is the author of the story collection Eat Hell and the novel Empty the Sun (A Barnacle Book), which was a finalist for the 2010 SCIBA Fiction Award. He lives in Los Angeles. Jerry Stahl has written six books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight and the novels I, Fatty and Pain Killers. His nonfiction and journalism have appeared in Details, The Believer, the New York Times, and a variety of other places. Hemingway & Gellhorn, written by Stahl, premiered on HBO in 2012, and he is currently working on The Thin Man with Johnny Depp.