Alex Kotlowitz is the Winter Quarter 2009 Visiting Writer in Residence for the Center for the Writing Arts, teaching the Art of Nonfiction: Telling Stories. Alex Kotlowitz is the award-winning author of There Are No Children Here , The Other Side of the River , and Never a City So Real . Contributor to The New York Times Magazine and public radio's This American Life. Alex Kotlowitz is renowned for his narratives of particular individuals whose concrete life experiences illuminate broad aspects of our nation's social and political landscape.