Gina B. Nahai is a best-selling author, and a professor of Creative Writing at USC. Her novels have been translated into 18 languages, and have been selected as "One of the Best Books of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Nahai holds a BA and a Master's degree in International Relations from UCLA, and an MFA in Creative Writing from USC. She lives in Los Angeles, where she's at work on a new novel.