Joseph Treviño is a seasoned journalist who has covered cops and crime for newspapers such as Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly in The City of Angels –one of the most violent cities in the world-. During his journalistic career, he has also investigated dangerous cults.

Culling from his vast experience working as street reporter covering everything from famous gunfights like the Hollywood Bank Robbery to crooked cops like the LAPD Rampart corruption probe, Treviño was inspired to write The Wolftress after investigating several stories involving killings linked to the occult.
The subject of Werewolves has fascinated him since an early age.

Born in Stockton, California from immigrant Mexican parents who worked as agricultural migrant workers, Treviño grew up in Calexico, the border town next to Mexicali, Mexico.

When he was 9-years-old his family moved to Los Angeles, where they would live in Watts, South Central and finally settling in Lincoln Heights.

Completely bicultural and bilingual and a fan of the classics and genre novels in both languages, Treviño started his journalistic career in “Noticias del Mundo,” a now-defunct Spanish-language daily covering Rock en Español, then one of the most exciting pop music movements of the era.

After serving in the U.S. Army for three years and receiving an honorable discharge during the Gulf War era, Treviño was hired by La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language daily as an entertainment reporter, later moving to its Metro section to cover law enforcement and crime.

Los Angeles Times hired Treviño, where he covered the “Central Area” as a breaking news reporter in its busiest beat. The LA Weekly snatched Trevino from the Times to work as a project and investigative reporter.

Since then, Treviño has worked in Mexico for many of the big daily newspapers, in Los Angeles for Telemundo, been an editor in Ventura, CA, Yakima, WA, a writer in Tucson and the first Latino editor of the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, located in the historic, Old West gunslinger cow town of Abilene, Kansas. His latest job before moving to Del Rio was as the editor of Latino Leaders, an international magazine based in Dallas.

Treviño and his wife, Cristina, like to travel and going to the movies. They have two daughters who work and study in Los Angeles and Florida.

As a wannabe cowboy during his off time, Trevino likes going to rodeos.