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ALEXANDER PARSONS grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and New Mexico State University’s Creative Writing Program. His first novel, Leaving Disneyland, won the 2000 Associated Writing Programs’ Award for the Novel and is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press. He is currently finishing his second book, El Malpaís. He can be contacted at nuevogato2000@yahoo.com.
PO BRONSON is the author of The Nudist on the Late Shift (1999), The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (1997), and Bombardiers (1995). He has also written for the television drama The $treet (2000), as well as for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Bronson grew up in Seattle, graduated from Stanford University in 1986, and lives in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.pobronson.com.
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