Bones Kendall

Bones Kendall is also Evan Kendall, an English professor at Los Angeles City College. His wife, to whom "Mikka Mi Amor" is written, nicknamed him Bones because he's so skinny.

Kendall decided to become a writer when he was in Africa, hitchhiking across the Sahara Desert after he dropped out of college while on an education abroad program in Ghana.

Eventually, he returned and went to UCLA, where he studied literature. Following stints in Hollywood, working for writer/producer/director Michael Mann, as well as Zalman King, Kendall taught English in Japan. Soon after, he was the father of two and a full-time professor.

With DC Curtis, whom he met at UCLA, Kendall co-authored "Truth & Pain starring the Gangsters & Retards in... The Mystique-cal Person-a of MC Cripple Crip".

More recently, he published (and edited) Shawn Casey O'Brien's "For the Love of Long Shots: A Memoir on Democracy". It's the true story of a disability rights activist who registered 100,000 voters in California in the 1990s -- read it and be inspired.

Kendall has an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in English from UCLA.