Two UC Riverside creative writing authors have stories included in this year’s “The Best American Mystery and Suspense” short fiction collection. Tod Goldberg, adjunct professor of creative writing and director of the UCR Palm Desert low-residency MFA program, and Ivy Pochoda, an adjunct assistant professor with the program, are among the 20...

The series honors the best mystery short fiction published in the previous year.

The fictional stories are influenced by the desert southwest.

Tod Goldberg’s “The Outside In” was the first essay awarded a grant as part of a California Desert Arts Council initiative