Steven Boyd Saum is a writer and editor with more than 25 years experience. He is at work on a book about California and edits WorldView Magazine. For more than a decade he edited Santa Clara Magazine, winning CASE gold medals for writing, design, and overall excellence, and he established the magazine for The Commonwealth Club of California. His journalism, essays, and fiction have appeared in The Believer, Creative Nonfiction, Orion, The Kenyon Review, on KQED FM, and in numerous university magazines. He has lived and worked in the Czech Republic and Ukraine, where he directed the Fulbright program, taught as a Peace Corps volunteer, hosted a radio show, and has served as an election observer.