Alan E. (Al) Strunk experiences life in New Orleans' French Quarter in the mid-1980s after receiving a MFA Degree in Theater from Tulane University. He serves as Production Manager at the Saenger Performing Arts Center and the La Petite Theatre du Vieux Carre. He is the author of the historical novel Pacific Sail and the non-fiction journal Quarantine Quckies - Pandemic in Paradise. French Market Mayhem - an Early Times New Orleans Murder Mystery is his first detctive story. His flash-fiction piece, "Memory Trap" appears in the October 2021 edition of the e-zine Loud Coffee. He is a monthly feature contributor to The Sea Scoop, a private print magazine for local mobile home owners. Raised among a diversity of hard-working peoples living in awe of nature, he learns to love where he lives by leaving it. After forty years of wandering he returns home to the seaside village of Los Osos on California's Central Coast. He can be reached at pacificsaga@yahoo.com. 

Honorable Discharge U.S. Navy 1963-1968. Viet Nam Veteran.
B.A. Degree in Dramatic Arts, University of California Santa Barbara 1971. State of California Life Secondary Teaching Credential. Graduate work in theatre directing at Humboldt State University, Arcata CA, 1981. Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dramatic Criticism Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 1983. President, Kiwanis Club of Bay-Osos, Los Osos, CA.
Lt. Governor, California-Nevada-Hawaii District, Kiwanis International
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