Alex Austin is a Los Angeles writer and journalist whose fiction has appeared in numerous magazines. His plays have been produced in Los Angeles, Portland, and New York, including Mimosa, the featured play in Wordsmiths Playwrights Festival and The Amazing Brenda Strider, a Backstage West Critic's Pick. Austin lives with his wife, Eileen, in the West Valley and has three children, one of whom resided in Tokyo for several years and married a Japanese woman, the springboard for his current novel.
