Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir, published by the University of Nebraska in Tobias Wolff’s American Lives Series, and excerpted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Agni Online. She co-authored Acting for Young Actors (Watson-Guptill) with director Mary Lou Belli, and has taught acting for film and for musical theatre at UCLA. Dinah writes occasionally for The Los Angeles Times Opinion pages, and contributes now and then to its ever-shrinking Book Review. She was a visiting lecturer at UCLA and Scripps, and gave the keynote address at the Sacramento Writers’ Conference last summer. She currently teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainier Writing Workshop, and the Masters of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California. A working actor, Dinah most recently played a man disguised as a woman on The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She holds a BA in American Studies from Yale, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Bennington (2003), as well as a certificate of acting from the Neighborhood Playhouse school. Dinah lives in Los Angeles – just over the hill from Dodger Stadium -- with her husband and two children.