Diana Wagman is the author of five novels for adults and one for young adults. Her second book, Spontaneous, won the PEN West Award for Fiction. Her fourth, The Care & Feeding of Exotic Pets, was a local bestseller. She has recently published essays, articles, reviews and short stories in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently Lit Hub and The Santa Monica Review. She started her career at AFI as a screenwriting fellow and had one feature film, Delivering Milo, produced. She teaches writing and for the last three years has been a judge for the LA Times Book Prizes. [F] www.dianawagman.com