Authors

The Artists and Writers of Desert Dog Books

Ayin Es is a native Los Angelena born in 1968. A self-taught visual artist, writer, and a drummer, there Artist's books have been collected worldwide and acquired by the Getty Research Library, UCLA Special Collections, and the Brooklyn Museum, to name a few. Having published with small presses in the past, Ayin published their first full-length book of nonfiction, Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley in 2019.

Hannah Phillips played in punk bands in the late 1970s, then went on to travel the world with the reggae band Boom Shaka in the 1980s. In 1995 she published her first collection of poetry and short stories, alternative man, with Mother Road Publications. She has been published by various small presses, as well as self-publishing a number of her other works. Hannah is currently working on a memoir about her life as a musician. Check out more of her books at booksbyhannah.com.