Eric Z. Wein­traub is the author of the nov­el South of Sepharad and the novel­la Dreams of an Amer­i­can Exile. He holds an MFA in Cre­ative Writ­ing from Mount St. Mary’s Uni­ver­si­ty. Born and raised in Los Ange­les, Cal­i­for­nia, he pro­files com­plex med­ical cas­es at the Keck School of Med­i­cine of USC.