Fred Setterberg is the author of Lunch Bucket Paradise, The Roads Taken, and Sam Maloof: 36 Views of a Master Woodworker. He is the coauthor with Lonny Shavelson of Under the Dragon and Toxic Nation, and the editor of Travelers’ Tales America.
His essays, stories, and journalism have appeared in The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, The Nation, The Utne Reader, The Chicago Reader, The Boston Phoenix, and scores of other national and regional magazines. Fred earned his B.A. in English at the University of California at Berkeley and his M.A. in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. He is a former staff writer for the East Bay Express and has been a visiting writer with the Chautauqua Writers Center. He lives in Oakland, California.
