Richard Natale is a Los Angeles-based journalist and writer whose stories have appeared in such publications as Mollyhouse, Otherwise Engaged, Confetti, Chelsea Station, the MCB Quarterly, and the anthologies Image/Out, Love is Love, and Off the Rocks. His novels include Mystery Dance, Pigeon, The Rushes, Love on the Jersey Shore, Cafe Eisenhower, the novella Junior Willis, and the YA fantasy novel The Golden City of Dubloon.

 

 

Natale won the National Playwright’s Competition for his two-act comedy-drama Shuffle Off This Mortal Buffalo, which was subsequently staged in Kansas City and Los Angeles. He also wrote and directed the feature film Green Plaid Shirt, which was the closing night selection at the Palm Springs Film Festival and was screened at more than a dozen film festivals worldwide.