Jervey Tervalon is an award-winning, best-selling novelist based in Los Angeles, United States. He was born in New Orleans and raised in Los Angeles, and received his MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine where he worked with Thomas Keneally. Jervey Tervalon is a writer of six novels, two anthologies, a collection of stories and numerous essays on a wide range of publications including the Quality Paper Book Club's New Voices Award, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller?Dead Above Ground.?His new novel,?Monster's Chef?will be published June 2014.