A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Justin Clark has reported from Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.  In 2006, he was shortlisted for "Best Feature" at the Southern California Journalism Awards. Based in Los Angeles, his journalism has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, LA Weekly, Psychology Today, Blackbook, Architecture, I.D., and The Fader, among dozens of other publications. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Quarterly West, Cuarto, Nerve, among others. He is an alum of the California Institute of the Arts as well as UCLA, where he graduated at 17.  He currently teaches literature part-time at National University, and is finishing a historical mystery novel set in post-WWII Paris.