Colleen Dunn Bates

Colleen Dunn Bates is the publisher at Prospect Park Books, an independent press in Altadena, California. She founded Prospect Park in 2006 after spending 25 years as an author, magazine journalist, book editor, and newspaper editor. Prospect Park publishes trade books in several areas: fiction, mystery, food/cooking, humor, gift, and regional.

Prospect Park's authors include Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Naomi Hirahara; Los Angeles Times-bestselling novelist Lian Dolan; Los Angeles Times-bestselling writer Chris Erskine; award-winning cookbook authors Bill Esparza and Christine Moore; humorists Jennifer Worick and Mark Dawidziak; Emmy-winning crime writer Phoef Sutton; and such notables as Michelle Brafman, Michal Lemberger, Christopher Noxon, Douglas Segal, Karen Rizzo, Rachel M. Harper, Jim Kempton, Anne Flett-Giordano, and Karin Esterhammer. Prospect Park’s books are distributed by Consortium/Ingram.

A sixth-generation Southern Californian, Colleen lives in their Pasadena empty nest with her husband and their labradoodle.