Tod Goldberg is the author of the novels “Living Dead Girl,” “Fake Liar Cheat,” “Burn Notice: The Fix” and “Burn Notice: The End Game.”

He is also the author of two story collections, “Simplify” and “Other Resort Cities.”

“Living Dead Girl” was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. “Simplify” was a 2006 finalist for the SCBA Award for Fiction and won the Other Voices Short Story Collection Prize.

His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Other Voices, Santa Monica Review, The Sun and “Las Vegas Noir” (Akashic), twice receiving Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize.

His essays and nonfiction have appeared widely, including in the anthologies “When I Was A Loser,” “Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes,” and “Off The Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings and Everything In Between.”

A contributing writer for a number of magazines and newspapers, Tod’s journalism and criticism frequently appears in the Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas CityLife, Palm Springs Life, E! and many other publications, and have earned three Nevada Press Association awards for excellence.

He is currently the Administrative Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside’s Palm Desert Graduate Center and previously taught creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, where he was named the 2005 Outstanding Instructor of the Year.

He lives in La Quinta, Calif., with his wife, the writer Wendy Duren.