Anita Faye Garner enjoyed a long career in radio, on the air in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and as host of nationally syndicated shows, The Great Starship and Something Special. She was an announcer for decades for KCET-TV in Hollywood, PBS for Southern California. She has won the 2009 John Steinbeck Short Story Award, and her work appears in Saturday Evening Post's 2015 Great American Fiction anthology.