About Steve Abee
Steve Abee, born in 1967 in Santa Monica (California), is an American writer, poet and professor of literature at the Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts. His short stories and novels are inspired by the social and cultural lives of marginalized people in Los Angeles in a picaresque style in the vein of the Beat Generation (Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg). After graduating from Santa Monica High School in 1985, Steve Abee was accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he remained until 1989. During this period, his literary vocation solidified, and he worked with poets such as Lucille Clifton and Nathaniel Mackey.The publication of King Planet in 1997 immediately established him as a major figure in Californian literature. Steve Abee lives in El Sereno, a suburb of Los Angeles, with his wife, Cat Uribe-Abee, and their two daughters.
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