Leonard Chang (’94) is the author of eight novels, including his first, The Fruit ‘N Food (1996), winner of the Black Heron Press Award, Dispatches from the Cold (1998), which won the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Literature, the Choice trilogy, Crossings, Triplines, and The Lockpicker. He is also a writer/co-executive producer for the new FX TV drama, Snowfall, about the introduction of crack cocaine to Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at Harvard, creative writing at UC-Irvine’s graduate writing program, and lives in south L.A.