Elizabeth Gallagher grew up in Ventura, California, and studied journalism at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She worked a decade on the crime and courts beat for the Long Beach Press-Telegram and later as a researcher for a public radio show in Los Angeles. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Santa Monica Review, and her reporting has been recognized by the California News Publishers Association. She lives in Long Beach with a rescue mutt named Pinto and a wobbly shelf of beach glass, and teaches community workshops on narrative nonfiction.
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