Ray LopezRay Lopez is an evangelist who ministers to the hardcore in fulfillment of a prophetic word spoken over his life. He also works as a mitigation specialist in federal death penalty cases, after retiring from a twenty-six-year career as a federal probaion officer. He earned his MA in English at UC Berkeley in 1988 and is the author of three memoirs: Hard Knocks: Memoir of a Small Moment (2020), Hard Love: A California Memoir (2021), and Hard Faith: A Final Memoir (2022). The Painter is his first work of fiction.

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