Stefan Nicholas MattessichStefan Mattessich was educated at Yale College and UC Santa Cruz, where he received a PhD by writing a dissertation on the novelist Thomas Pynchon that was eventually published as a monograph called Lines of Flight (Duke University Press). He has wor many hats as a writer: screenwriter, film reviewer, and literary critic as well as fiction writer. His first novel, a coming-of-age story called Point Guard, was offered by Touchpoint Press in 2017. A recent fiction publication is On Liberty, the first chapter of East Brother. It appeared as a stand-alone story in the Spring 2017 issue of the Santa Monica Review. Another short story, Angel in the Mango Tree, appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Permafrost Magazine. He teaches English at Santa Monica College and lives in Venice, California. Read More Read Less