Alan RifkinAlan Rifkin is a former Details and LA Weekly contributing editor who has also written for Premiere, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Black Clock, and the Quarterly. A finalist for oth the PEN Center-USA Award in Journalism and the Southern California Booksellers’ Award in Fiction, he has led workshops in magazine writing, the short story and creative nonfiction at UCLA Extension, Santa Monica College, Chapman University, and California State University, Long Beach. He is active in the homeless ministry at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church in Long Beach and is the father of three children. Read More Read Less