Lawrence Neumeister

Lawrence Neumeister was born in the shadow of the Lackawanna Steel plant. He grew up in various bucolic villages, at the trailing end of economically depressed Appalachia, and near the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca. After he graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia he was driven from the area by the "White Death" snowstorm of 1977. Since then he has made Los Angeles his home. The Serpent Gowanus:Glue Pit is his debut novel.