Nava grew up in Gardenland, a predominantly working-class Mexican neighborhood in Sacramento, California that he described as "not as an American suburb at all, but rather as a Mexican village, transported perhaps from Guanajuato, where my grandmother's family originated, and set down lock, stock and chicken coop in the middle of California.” His maternal family settled there in 1920 after escaping from the Mexican Revolution. California Supreme Court justice Carlos R. In October 2008, Nava married his partner since 2001, George Herzog, an oncology nurse at the Veteran's Administration hospital in San Francisco. His novels have received six Lambda Literary Awards and critical acclaim in the GLBT and Latino communities. He authored a seven-volume mystery series featuring Henry Rios, an openly gay protagonist who is a criminal defense lawyer. He has worked on the staff for the California Supreme Court, and ran for a Superior Court position in 2010. Elisa_rolle Michael Angel Nava (born Septemin Stockton, California) is an American attorney and writer.
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