Mona Simpson is the author of five books of fiction: My Hollywood, Off Keck Road, A Regular Guy, The Lost Father and Anywhere But Here. Her work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Granta, Best American Short Stories, and on This American Life. She has won The Whiting Writers Award, A Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award and most recently, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Simpson is currently a professor in the English Department at UCLA.