User:Inner City Teacher

Inner City Teacher (born: 1977 in Burbank, California) is an American educator. He is currently an English teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District. He received his B.A. in English and his master's degree from Boston University. When he isn't caught up in the maelstrom of being a teacher in south-central L.A., he enjoys mellowing out with a good book. Some of his favorite works of fiction are Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, The Up and Comer by Howard Roughan, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Death In Venice by Thomas Mann, No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker, and Budding Prospects by T.C. Boyle. In addition to his love of fiction, Inner City Teacher is also a devotee of true crime writing. His favorite works in the true crime genre are In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Severed by John Gilmore, Final Truth by Wilton Earle, Monster by Sanyika Shakur, Defending Gary by Mark Prothero and Carlton Smith, and Zodiac by Robert Graysmith.

Inner City Teacher is a self-proclaimed "godless liberal." He lives in Long Beach, California.