<DIV><p>The historic, handsome city in the shadow of Los Angeles has been a creative hotbed since the Arroyo Arts & Crafts scene of the early twentieth century. This literary journal gathers short fiction by such Pasadena-area writers as Michelle Huneven (<I>Blame</I>), David Ebershoff (<I>The 19th Wife</I>), Victoria Patterson (<I>This Vacant Paradise</I>), Jervey Tervalon (<I>Understand This</I>), Naomi Hirahara (<I>Snakeskin Shamisen</I>), Lian Dolan (<I>Helen of Pasadena</I>), Denise Hamilton (<I>The Last Embrace</I>), Ron Koertge (<I>The Arizona Kid</I>), Dianne Emley (the Nan Vining mysteries), and Jim Krusoe (<I>Parsifal</I>).</p><p>Produced as a companion to LitFest Pasadena (May 2013), <I>Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition</I> is the first in an annual series that will move on to include editions in poetry, essays, humor, and more.</p><BR></DIV>