Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of crime novels featuring gay Mexican-American criminal defense attorney Henry Rios. The Rios novels have won seven Lambda Literary awards, and Nava was called by The New York Times ?one of our best.? In 2001, he was awarded the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT Literature. A native Californian and the grandson of Mexican immigrants, he divides his time between San Francisco and Palm Springs.