Dean Nelson is the founder and director of the journalism program at
Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, and the founder and host of the annual
Writer's Symposium By The Sea, where he has interviewed great writers for more than 30 years. His most recent books are
Talking To Writers: The Craft of Fiction, and
Talking To Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction, published 2025 by Bloomsbury.
