Joshua Peralta

Joshua Peralta is a writer and teacher based in Oakland, CA. His first book is 3rd & Orange, a novella composed of poetry and prose. His stories, poems, and essays have been published in various places online and in print.

He is currently working on a new biographical portrait of the young John Fante (1909-83). Part biography, part literary & local history, and part memoir, the book tells the story of Fante’s arrival in the twin harbors of Long Beach and Los Angeles at the beginning of the Great Depression, and traces his unlikely transformation from a day-laboring slacker to a professional writer, whose alter-ego Arturo Bandini continues to delight, frustrate, comfort and cheer readers and writers everywhere.