Laurie Ann Doyle is an award-winning writer and teacher of writing at the San Francisco Writers Grotto and UC Berkeley. She is the author of World Gone Missing, coming September 30 from Regal House Publishing, and winner of the Alligator Juniper National Fiction Award. Select stories from World Gone Missing have been nominated for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. Others have been published in The Los Angeles Review, Timber, Jabberwork Review, Arroyo Literary Review, and elsewhere. Laurie is the co-founder of Babylon Salon, a San Francisco literary performance series now celebrating its tenth year.