Born in Texas, raised in Washington, D.C., and self-exiled to Colorado, the world-traveled collector of air miles LANCE REYNALD currently lives in Portland, Oregon, but keeps a bag packed near the door for the moment when wanderlust calls. He has an affinity for vanilla lattes, dirty martinis, the works of Faulkner, Kerouac, and Burroughs, the smell of imported cigarettes in fine woolens, the photography of Doisneau and Brassai, and what some regard as the worst of early 80s Brit Pop.

His first novel, Pop Salvation (Harper Perennial) is now available wherever books are sold.