Having embarked on a writing career ever since he was 12, Nava believes that some people are born to write. He currently lives in Daly City, California with his partner George Herzog, an oncology nurse. He went on to work in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and by 1999, he was part of the staff of the Supreme Court working as a judicial attorney for Justice Carlos R. After returning to the United States, he went to Stanford Law School where he graduated with a law degree in 1981. Watson Fellowship that required him to spend time in Madrid and Buenos Aires translating the works of Ruben Dario. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1976, and got a Thomas J. It was at Colorado that he honed his writing skills as he mingled with the likes of humorist and writer David Owen and David Mason the poet.

He made history in his family as the first ever Nava to attend college when he was admitted to Colorado College, where he engaged in creative writing and literature despite being a history major. He first got interested in writing aged only 12, which was also the time, that he realized that he was gay. Michael was raised in Sacramento California, in a predominantly working class Mexican suburb that looked more like a Mexican village than an American neighborhood. His novels have earned him critical acclaim in the Latino and LGBT Communities and been the recipients of the Lambda Literary Awards six times.

He is best known for the “Henry Rios Mystery” series of novels featuring the lead character Henry Rios, an openly gay criminal defense attorney. Michael Nava is an American lawyer turned thriller, mystery, and gay fiction author.

The Burning Plain by Michael Nava