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 by Allen Callaci is a meditation on her life, the life that might have been, and the loss that still haunts the community three decades on.

Allen Callaci is lead singer for the band Refrigerator, an adjunct professor, and a librarian whose work has appeared in MungBeing, the Poly Post, The Huffington Post, BK Nation, Cinefantastique, Crump Comics and various 'zines in the 90s. He lives in Southern California and is the proud co-founder of the Rancho Cucamonga Public Library's Star Wars Day.