Emilien Crespo is a French entrepreneur and writer based in Los Angeles, California. After a decade working on Apple’s global marketing, he started Ordinary Flame, an art publishing company. He wrote the travel guidebook “Soul of Los Angeles,” which won the 2020 Best Independent Travel Guidebook of the Year award. He is an editor-at-large for Purple Magazine and has contributed with publications such as The Gourmand, Interview, Muse, and Autre.