Max Talley

Max Talley is a New York-born writer now living in Southern California. He writes crime fiction and short stories, often with a hippie-era or noir flavor. His work has appeared in The Opiate and several other literary journals. The Opiate has published both his satirical nonfiction and criticism of his novel Santa Fe Psychosis. His third short story collection, Destroy Me Gently, Please, came out in 2025.