Lou MathewsLou Mathews lives in Los Angeles and is a fourth generation Angeleno. Married at nineteen, he worked his way through UC Santa Cruz as a gas station attendant and mechanic and continued to work as a mechanic until he was thirty-nine. His first ovel, L.A. Breakdown, about illegal street racing, was picked by the Los Angeles Times as a Best Book of 1999. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a California Arts Council Fiction Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Katherine Anne Porter Prize. His short stories have been published in more than forty literary magazines including Short Story, ZYZZYVA, New England Review Witness, Crazy Horse, and Black Clock, as well as twelve fiction anthologies and two textbook series.

He has taught in UCLA Extension’s renowned Writer’s Program since 1989 and is a recipient of Teacher of the Year and Outstanding Instructor Awards.

His last novel, Shaky Town, was published in September 2021 and was long-listed for the 2022 Tournament of Books. More details on Mathews and Shaky Town can be found at https://www.tigervanbooks.com/shaky-town.

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