Philip Charles Barragan, II is an author and activist born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, a not-so-sleepy suburb of Los Angeles. He has been published in The Blade Magazine, The Big Ad Magazine, and Two Hawks Quarterly, an online literary journal. Philip earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2011. And when not challenging the status quo, Philip works with his husband, artist Mason Arrigo, on several projects including the upcoming graphic novel of Fatizen 24602.