17 and Life

In April 1983, Upland High School senior Anna Marie Bachoc was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, sending waves of shock and disbelief through the quiet city that had branded itself "the city of gracious living." 17 & Life is a meditation on her life, the life that might have been, and the loss that still haunts the community three decades on.

About the Author
Callaci, Allen: - Allen Callaci is the lead singer for the band Refrigerator, an adjunct professor at Mt Sac Community College, and a librarian at the Rancho Cucamonga Public Library where he is the proud co-founder of the library's Star Wars Day-the largest Star Wars library event on the West Coast. He is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in MungBeing, the Poly Post, The Huffington Post, BK Nation, Cinefantastique, and various 'zines in the 90s. His memoir Heart Like a Starfish was released in 2016 on Pelekinesis. He hails from the Inland Empire region of Southern California.