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Gary Phillips has published novels, comics, novellas, short stories and edited or co-edited several anthologies, including the Anthony-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir .

Almost 30 years after its publication, his debut, Violent Spring , was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles.

He was also a writer and co-producer on Snowfall , a show streaming on Hulu about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up.