Fred Russell is the pen name of an American-born writer living in Israel. His novel Rafi's World (Fomite Press), dealing with Israel's emerging criminal class, was published in Feb. 2014 and his stories and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Polluto, Fiction on the Web, Wilderness House Literary Review, Ontologica, Unlikely Stories: Episode 4, Gadfly, En Pointe, In Parenthesis, etc.