Fred Setterberg is the author of Lunch Bucket Paradise:  A True-Life Novel; Sam Maloof: 36 Views of a Master Woodworker; and The Roads Taken: Travels Through America’s Literary Landscapes, winner of the AWP prize in creative nonfiction.  He co-wrote Under the Dragon:  California’s New Culture with Lonny Shavelson (published by Heyday), which was adapted into exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California and The California Museum in Sacramento. He also edited Travelers’ Tales America.  His essays and reporting have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, The New York Times, The Nation, The Utne Reader, The Boston Phoenix, and scores of other journals and magazines.  He is a recipient of a NEA fellowship, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom essay prize, fiction awards from The Florida Review, Literal Latte, and Solstice Literary Magazine, and numerous journalism awards. A former staff writer for the East Bay Express, he lives in Oakland, California. 

Website: www.FredSetterberg.com

Publications

• Lunch Bucket Paradise , Heyday Books (2011)
• Under the Dragon: California's New Culture , Heyday Books (2007)
• The Roads Taken: Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes , University of Georgia Press (1993)
• Toxic Nation: The Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination , John Wiley & Sons (1993)
• Travelers' Tales: America: True Stories of Life on the Road , Travelers' Tales (1999)

Awards

• NEA Fellowship(1982)
• AWP Creative Nonfiction Award (1992)
• Literal Latte Short Story Award(2008)
• William Faulkner-William Wisdom Essay Award(2004)
• California Newspaper Publishers Association Feature Writing (1997)
• Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Arts Reporting(1996)
• California Newspaper Publishers Association Feature Writing (1995)
• Solstice Literary Journal Fiction Prize(2010)
• Project Censor Under-Reported Stories (1987)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from UC Berkeley
• Master of Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction