Monica Nolan was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She was educated at St. Jerome's parochial school, St. Ignatius College Prep, Bryn Mawr College, and San Francisco State University, where she received an MFA in Cinema.

Monica has lived and worked Alaska, New York, Chicago, and Ruthieres, France. She is the author of Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary and co-author with Alisa Surkis of The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories. She currently lives in San Francisco, California.

Careers:
Babysitter, Clothing Store Clerk, Library Assistant, Food Server, File Clerk, Research Assistant, Cannery Worker, Construction Worker, Assistant Project Manager, Bike Messenger, Bookstore Clerk, Au Pair, Secretarial Temp, Assistant Stage Manager, Assistant Web Producer, Editorial Assistant, Video Editor, Projectionist, Camera Operator, Machine Room Assistant, Casting Assistant, Lecturer, Writer.

Some Literary Influences:
Joan Aiken, Willa Cather, Betty Cavanna, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Charles Dickens, Rosamond Du Jardin, Anne Emery, Go Ask Alice, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Manchild in the Promised Land, Marcel Proust, Muriel Spark, Richard Stark, Mary Stolz, Amelia Elizabeth Walden, Walden II, Lenora Mattingly Weber.

Some Cinematic Influences:
Chantal Akerman, Fred Astaire, Blue Gardenia Luis Bunuel, James Cagney, Frank Capra, Bruce Conner, The Conversation, Ealing Comedies, Les Enfants du Paradis, W.C. Fields, Jean-Luc Godard, Gunga Din, Alfred Hitchcock, LA Plays Itself, Lawrence of Arabia, Leave Her To Heaven, The Locket, Peter Lorre, Agnes Moorhead, Pine Flat, Powell & Pressburger, The Prowler, Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Sturges, François Truffaut, Richard Widmark, Frederick Wiseman, A Woman Under the Influence.

Other websites you may enjoy:
Lynn Peril's Pink Think, Murder Can Be Fun, Bachelorette, 34, Prelinger Archives

Contact the author at: author@monicanolan.com