Mel Freilicher is a longtime San Diego resident who was publisher and co-editor of Crawl Out Your Window for 15 years, a magazine of regional literature and arts. Freilicher’s previous books, The Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives, The Encyclopedia of Rebels, and American Cream were published by SD City Works Press, and he was anthologized in their Sunshine/Noir I and II. Also anthologized in Contemporary American Fiction from Sun and Moon Press, and Performance Anthology: Source Book for a Decade of California Performance Art by Contemporary Arts Press, Freilicher has chapbooks out from Standing Stones Press and Obscure Publications. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in many publications, such as American Book Review and Fiction International (both of which he guest-edited), San Diego Free Press, SD Union-Tribune, Central Park, Frame-work: Journal of the LA Center for Photographic Arts, Flue: Magazine of Franklin Furnace Archive NYC, River Styx, Fourteen Hills, Golden Handcuffs Review, eye-rhyme: journal of experimental literature, Rampike, Bigbridge, and the Jumping-Off Place. Freilicher taught creative writing in UCSD’s literature department for several decades.