Scott Shibuya Brown is the author of the novel Far Afield (Red Hen Press, 2010), and a former staff journalist at Time Magazine and The Los Angeles Times. His reporting, reviews, and photos also have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The Kartika Review and The LA Weekly, among other publications. He has an MFA in Writing from CalArts and currently teaches at California State University, Northridge. He lives in Los Angeles, still plays in any number of punk and punk-inspired bands, and is currently working on a novel set in 1950s Japan.