David L. Coddon

A veteran journalist with more than 35 years' experience in newspapers, radio and new media, David Coddon is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a B.A. in journalism and of San Diego State with an MFA in Creative Writing. A longtime voice on the San Diego arts, entertainment and cultural scene, he writes the Union-Tribune's weekly "Artfully Speaking" report in Night&Day and contributes to the newspaper's theater coverage. Coddon is a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University and an adjunct professor of English at San Diego Mesa College. He is also the author of the novels "The Romancer," "There and Back Again," "In Violet" and "The Redeemers."