Richie Narvaez (aka R. Narvaez) is the author of Hipster Death Rattle and a collection of short stories, Roachkiller and Other Stories, which received the 2013 Spinetingler Award for Best Anthology/Short Story Collection and was listed as one of BookRiot's 100 Must-Read Works of Noir. He was born and raised in WIlliamsburg, Brooklyn.