About the Author

Chuck Rosenthal is the author of seven published novels: Loop's End (the Loop Trilogy); Elena of the Stars; Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel: His Last Novel; My Mistress, Humanity; and The Heart of Mars. He is the author of a memoir, Never Let Me Go, and two books of magic journalism, WEST OF EDEN: A LIFE IN 21ST CENTURY LOS ANGELES and ARE WE NOT THERE YET?: TRAVELS IN NEPAL, NORTH INDIA, AND BHUTAN. He rides and trains horses. He teaches narrative writing and theory for the Syntext program at Loyola Marymount University and lives in Topanga Canyon, outside Los Angeles.