GUEST INTERVIEW: LESLIE SCHWARTZ

INTERVIEW BY DANIEL A. OLIVAS

Leslie Schwartz's first novel, Jumping the Green (Simon & Schuster 1999), won the James Jones Literary Society Award for Best First Novel. Her second novel, Angels Crest (Doubleday 2004), was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, translated into nine languages, and optioned for film. In 2004, she was named Kalliope Magazine's Woman Writer of the Year.

Schwartz teaches creative writing at Juvenile Hall, in under-served middle and high school communities, and at Homeboy...