Laurie Ann Doyle is the author of WORLD GONE MISSING (Regal House Publishing), winner of the Nautilus Book Award in fiction and praised by bestselling author Peter Orner as "a gorgeous debut." Recipient of the Alligator Juniper National Fiction Prize and a Pushcart nomination, her stories and essays appear in The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, Alta Journal, Under the Sun, Jabberwock Review, McSweeny's, and many other journals. She is the co-founder of Babylon Salon, a long running literary series in San Francisco, and teaches writing at The Grotto and UC Berkeley Extension, where she is an honored instructor.