Steph Cha's short story, South Central Noir and an excerpt from Mary Camarillo's The Lockhart Women will be performed by professional actors. The authors will also participate in a Q and A following the performance.

Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award, and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s a critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she served as noir editor, and is the current series editor of the Best American Mystery and Suspense anthology. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Mary Camarillo's novel The Lockhart Women, published in June 2021 by She Writes Press, won first place in the Next Generation Indie Awards for first fiction. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in publications such as 166 Palms, The Sonora Review, Lunch Ticket, and The Ear. She lives in Huntington Beach.