Ozzie Cheek wrote his first story when he was in the fifth grade.
He knew then that he would be a writer, but his life took detours,
and he was in his midthirties before he started to write full time.
Prior to this period, Cheek attended a Methodist seminary to study
for the clergy, taught high school English, lived in a commune in
New Mexico, heeded the generational call of sex, drugs, and rock
’n’ roll, and somehow still earned a master’s degree in
communication and a master of fine arts degree in creative
writing.
Cheek moved to Los Angeles in the 1990s and found work as a staff
writer on a TV series. He wrote movies for HBO, Showtime, NBC, CBS,
and Fox, and wrote and produced the TV movie Kiss Tomorrow
Goodbye.
Cheek’s fiction includes the thriller Claws and the
literary novel White Boy Blues, and he is the coauthor
of Why Planes Crash (2011), the memoir of an aviation
disaster investigator.
An avid traveler, Cheek follows baseball and basketball, has been a
Shambhala Buddhist meditation practitioner for years, and reads
constantly and widely. He divides his time between coastal Maine
and Los Angeles.
“Intensely atmospheric, Ozzie Cheek’s Claws employs
clarity and precision to reveal a rich panorama of a small town
entrapped by a big time disaster.” —Keith Abbott, author
of Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of
Richard Brautigan
“Claws is a tremendous read. Well-written and scary. A lethal
combination. I suggest you do what I did, and read it in the
daytime. Nighttime reading was too scary.” —Nancy De Los Santos
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