Skylaire Alfvegren

As a child, Ms. Alfvegren witnessed her first UFO alongside Military personnel at Edwards Air Force Base. She has worked on cars for the Mexican Mafia and roped cattle on the border of Area 51. A native of Los Angeles, she began her professional writing career at the age of seventeen with "File o' the Damned," a regular column for the inebriated rawk rag, Fizz. A nod to grand-daddy phenomenalist Charles Fort, she hipsterized UFOs, parapsychology, crypto zoology and the like for slackers and students across the country.

Next, she acted as assistant editor on the last issues of Ben Is Dead magazine before building a laboratory to grow amanita muscaria and studying zoology and the pre-Colombian cultures of South America in San Francisco. Not yet of legal drinking age, she was hired as a consultant for Strange Universe, the Fox Network's nationally-syndicated "paranormal news program" as well as writing regularly for the L.A. Weekly.

Among the books her writing can be found in are Retro Hell: Life in the 70s and 80s from Afros to Zotz (Little, Brown and Company, 1998) and Amok Fifth Dispatch (Amok Books, 1999); she co-authored the recently released cheesepuff, Weird Nevada (Sterling Press, 2007).

Translated into seven languages and plastered helter skelter online, her gonzo sociological reportage (and film and music writing) have appeared in countless publications. She has investigated everything from the Hell's Angels to the porn industry, and edited Pills A-Go-Go (Feral House), winner of the Independent Publishers Award for Best Pop Culture title of 2000.

Currently a film columnist for a painfully fashionable monthly magazine, she is turning Truffaut, and applying her vast knowledge of California's dark, esoteric and bizarre elements to the small screen. Her other areas of investigation include anomalous phenomena, conspiracies of all stripes, the paranormal, fringe science, hidden history, oddball philosophy, and top-shelf liquor.

A seasoned journalist, interviewer and researcher, she recently founded the League Of Western Fortean Intermediatists (L.O.W.F.I.) in order to provide an outlet for discussions about (and examinations of) the mysteries and peculiarities of the Southwest. She claims to be a descendent of the Dark Elves of Old Scandinavia, but has been accused of being both an Elemental and the reincarnation of Dorothy Parker.

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