Gary Garvin lives and writes in San Jose, California. His essays and stories have appeared in Web Conjunctions, Fourth Genre, Confrontation, New Novel Review, The New Review, the minnesota review, The South Carolina Review, The Crescent Review, The Berkeley Graduate, and The Santa Clara Review. Other essays and stories have appeared online at Numéro Cinq. He has also written two novels and started a third, as well as begun writing on architecture at the online site Archinect.