Alistair McCartney teaches creative writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles. His work has appeared inFence,Bloom,James White Review, and other literary journals as well as in a number of fiction and creative nonfiction anthologies, includingWonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, andBetween Men. Born in Australia, he lives in Los Angeles with his partner Tim Miller. This is his first novel.