Who Is (Are?) FourStory?
Nathan Walpow
Editor
Nathan Walpow's Joe Portugal mystery series includes four novels; the latest is The Manipulated. His short story "Push Comes to Shove" was reprinted in The Best American Mystery Stories series and he has a story and song in the recent book/CD combination A Merry Band of Murderers. Nathan is past president of the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America and a five-time Jeopardy! champion.
nathan@fourstory.org | www.walpow.com
Rebecca Schoenkopf
Contributing Editor
Rebecca Schoenkopf wrote the beloved and reviled "Commie Girl" column for OC Weekly, where she served as senior editor until 2007. She teaches political science at UC Irvine and freelances for sweet amounts of cash. Seriously: sweet. She has a boy and a dog and a cat and lives in Anaheim, where she will still never own a home.
rebecca@fourstory.org | www.commiegirlcollective.com
Gary Phillips
Author of The Underbelly, our serialized mystery
Gary Phillips writes a regular column for Mystery Scene magazine, and has short stories in the recent Los Angeles Noir and Hollywood and Crime anthologies. He also co-edited the jaw-grinding Cocaine Chronicles collection. His op-eds and articles on race, politics, and pop culture have run in such venues as the then Los Angeles Times Magazine, American Prospect and the L.A. Weekly.
gary@fourstory.org | www.gdphillips.com
Tony Chavira
Regular Contributor
Tony Chavira is Communication Coordinator for RACAIA Architecture & Interiors. He's worked for both the U.S. and British governments, and understands just how burdensome and bureaucratic government offices can be when they try. He has a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in Globalization Research and USC in Global Media and Communication, which brought him home for good to his beloved Los Angeles. Tony was born and raised in East Los Angeles, works Downtown, and hates driving on any freeway unless it's the 2 on a clear day.
tony@fourstory.org | www.racaia.com
Donna Schoenkopf
Regular Contributor
Donna Schoenkopf is building a 1200 square foot environmental metal/glass house in Oklahoma for under $60,000, thanks to Peewee, Oklahoma's version of the Renaissance Man. She is doing this because she cannot afford to live anywhere else, especially California. Her daughter, Rebecca Schoenkopf, has named Donna's thirteen acres of hills, wildflowers, woods, two creeks and a pond, "Chigger Lake." The same daughter has described Donna's house as "a tin house in tornado alley." Both statements are true.
donna@fourstory.org
Jim Washburn
Regular Contributor
Jim Washburn has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, the OC Weekly, various MSN sites and just about anybody else willing to trade a paycheck for a pulse. Despite a quarter-century in journalism, he prefers to imagine humanity has a future. Jim co-authored Fleetwood Industries founder John Crean's autobiography, The Wheel and I, and Martin Guitars, a Celebration of America's Premier Guitarmaker, the success of which can pretty well be gauged by the fact that Jim's 51 years old and still renting.
jim@fourstory.org
Jonathan Webb
Executive Producer
Jonathan Webb has over 25 years experience in the development of residential real estate. Since 1996 he has been Executive Director of the Foundation for Social Resources, a 501(c)(3) non-profit housing corporation, whose mission is to provide, preserve and create affordable housing. He co-founded Project Access, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide on-site educational and social services to low-income residents of affordable communities, and has served as President of the Board since its inception. He is Treasurer of the Board of the Grand Central Art Forum in Santa Ana and has a beautiful wife and a beautiful house in Orange.
jon@fourstory.org
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