Michael Nava

Michael Nava is the author of a seven-volume series of novels featuring a gay Latino criminal defense lawyer, Henry Rios. Published between 1988 and 2000, the Rios novels (The Little Death, Goldenboy, Howtown, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, The Burning Plain and Rag and Bone) earned six Lambda Literary awards and won widespread critical acclaim. In 2000, Nava was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in gay and lesbian literature. A Stanford Law School graduate, he has also had a distinguished career as an appellate lawyer and is currently a staff attorney for the Honorable Carlos Moreno, associate justice of the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. Currently, Nava is working on a historical novel set in an Arizona border town during the Mexican Revolution called The Children of Eve.