About the Author
Deanne Stillman is the author of Blood Brothers, which received a starred review in Kirkus, was excerpted in Newsweek, named a “Best Book of the Year” by the millions and True West Magazine, and won the Ohioana Book Award; Mustang, a California Book Award silver medalist and an LA Times “best book of the year,” in audio with Anjelica Huston, Frances Fisher, and John Densmore; and Twentynine Palms, an LA Times Best Book of the Year that Hunter S. Thompson called “a strange and brilliant story by an important American writer.” Desert Reckoning is based on a Rolling Stone article, won the Spur, LA Press Club, and Southwest Book of the Year Awards, was an amazon editors pick, and received raves in Newsweek, the LA Review of Books, and Kirkus. Her essays have appeared in the Washington Monthly, UK Independent, NY Times, LA Review of Books, lithub, and many other publications. She’s a founding professor of the UC Riverside-Palm Desert MFA Low Residency Creative Writing Program, where she taught for thirteen years, and she has also written for film and television.