Stefan Mattessich

AUTHOR BIO:

STEFAN MATTESSICH has written four novels: Point Guard, a coming-of-age story set on the Northern California coast of Mendocino; East Brother, a satire about gentrification in a fictional California beach town; and most recently A Precarious Man, about the search for love and belonging in neoliberal times, and The Riverbed, about three imaginative young people coming to understand the darker sides of the suburbia they call home. The Riverbed is the recipient of a Literary Titan Book Award. He went to Yale College and has a PhD in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he wrote a monograph on the fiction of Thomas Pynchon entitled Lines of Flight, published by Duke University Press. He has also written a wide variety of literary criticism and cultural theory. He teaches English at Santa Monica College and lives in Los Angeles.