This panel will take place on the West Hollywood Park Stage.
\nOlivie Blake is the New York T imes bestselling author of The Atlas Six\, < a href="https://catalog.lacountylibrary.org/client/en_US/default/search/re sults?qu=Alone+with+You+in+the+Ether&\;te=&\;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE% 7C%7C%7CTitle">Alone with You in the Ether\, One for My Enemy \, Masters of Deat h\, Januaries\, and Gifted &\; Talented. As Alexene Farol Follmuth\, she is a lso the author of the young adult rom-coms Twelfth Knight and My Me chanical Romance. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.\n
Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen bo oks\, including Only Way Out\ , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the acclaimed Gang sterland quartet &mdash\; Gangsterland\, Gangster Nation\, The Low D esert: Gangster Stories and Gangsters Don&rsquo\;t Die &mdash\; which have been published in a dozen countries and have won or have been a finalist for the Hammett Prize\, the Southwest Book of the Year\, the Strand Critics Award\, the Reading the West Award\, the Interna tional Thriller of the Year and many more. His previous books include Living Dead Girl\, also a finalist for the Los An geles Times Book Prize\, The House of Secrets\, which he wrote with Brad Meltzer\, and the anth ology Eight Very Bad Nights\, a finalist for the Anthony Awa rd. His short fiction appears widely and has twice been honored with selec tion in Best American Mystery &\; Suspense (2022 &\; 2025)\, while h is nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Washington Post\, Al ta\, and USA Today\, among countless others\, and has been selected for Be st American Essays\, awarded five Nevada Press Association Awards\, and re ceived distinction from the American Society of Journalists &\; Authors . He is also currently a producer on the upcoming Netflix show The Roman. Tod is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California\, R iverside where he founded and directs the Low Residency MFA in Creative Wr iting &\; Writing for the Performing Arts. His next book\, The Salton S ea\, will be published by Counterpoint Press.
\nBridget Morrissey li ves in Los Angeles\, California\, but hails from Oak Forest\, Illinois. Wh en she&rsquo\;s not writing\, she can be found cradling one of her cats li ke a baby or headlining concerts in her living room. She is the author of several novels for adults and teens\, including That Summer Feeling\, Everything She Does is Magic\, and USA Today and indie bestseller This Will Be Fun\, co-written with Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka un der the pen name E.B. Asher.
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