Dublin Galyean, South Pasadena resident, former LAUSD English teacher, has published his first novel, Bougainvillea Blues. Galyean, born in east Texas, grew up in San Diego, CA and uses both settings for this coming of age story. After graduating from UCSD in biology, he took a short stab at an acting career that led to performing as a teacher of ESL (English as a Second Language) and then to teaching literature analysis at adult schools, mostly to eager immigrant students. After reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones, years of journal writing translated into what would become Bougainvillea Blues.  In 2007, he earned an M.A. in English from CSULA for a much shorter version.  He now lives in the sprawl of Los Angeles with his wife and an enormous pepper tree.