Author Steve Wishnia is an award-winning editor and journalist whose work has appeared frequently in The Nation, The Progressive, and Alternet.org. Author has won two New York City Independent Press Association awards. Author was bass player in the False Prophets, a punk band that released two albums on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles record label in the 1980s. Author has had work appear in many anthologies the forthcoming Long Island Noir (Akashic). Author's non-fiction title, The Cannabis Companion (Running Press, 2004) sold more than 40,000 copies.