‘Able to Forward’

Chris Stanton is a creative writer and artist in Los Angeles. His first novel Kings of the Earth, the story of a haunted surfing town on Lake Michigan, was published in 2019. His short stories have appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines and his “novel in stories” Dandelion Crossing arrived in 2025. Kirkus Reviews called it “a heartfelt and deeply human collective portrait set in a palace of consumerism.”