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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  PETER PLATE, whom the Review of Contemporary Fiction calls “one of the most intriguing novelists writing now,” is a self-taught fiction writer and former denizen of squats in the Mission District of San Francisco. His eight novels include One Foot off the Gutter (1995), Snitch Factory (1997), Police and Thieves (1999), and Angels of Catastrophe (2001), all published by Seven Stories Press. He is a contributing essayist to the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2004, Plate was named a Literary Laureate of San Francisco, where he lives.