Alan Rifkin

Alan Rifkin is a former LA Weekly and Details contributing editor who has taught Feature Writing and Creative Writing at UCLA Extension, Santa Monica College, and California State University, Long Beach. His short-story collection, Signal Hill, from City Lights Books, was a finalist for the Southern California Booksellers Award in Fiction, and his nonfiction has been shortlisted for the PEN Center-USA Award in Journalism. His forthcoming book, Wounds To Bind: A Memoir Of The Folk Rock Revolution, with We Five’s Jerry Burgan, will be published in April 2014 by Scarecrow Press.