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Joe Gold (b. 1950) is a freelance writer in San Francisco, author of The Lamp Post Motel, a whimsical science fiction novel in which graduate students of the future come to do sexual anthropology research here in the past. They find themselves at at a seedy motel in Tucson, Arizona. They discover that the owner uses hidden cameras to observe his customers, and drop his mind into the bodies of the people he's watching. Excerpts, background info and podcast files at [www.thelamppostmotel.com].

As a journalist, Gold reported for Associated Press, Arizona Daily Star, OneChannel.net, Tucson Weekly, Clickz. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. His short story "Malaise" won first place for short fiction in the National League of American Pen Women's soul-making contest.

Currently consultant for marketing strategy, advertising creative direction, writing and producing promotional material and compelling content. He is co-chair of the Bay Area chapter of the National Writers Union and maintains a perverse interest in progressive politics.