Brad Ricca was the winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award for American Mastodon (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), which was featured on A Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor and named “Best Poetry Debut” by Cleveland Magazine. He has had poetry appear in The Coe Review, The Kerf, 6ix, Black Dirt, White Pelican Review, Marco Polo, Caesura, Albatross, and elsewhere. His new nonfiction book Super Boys (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) is about Superman. His film Last Son won a 2010 Silver Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival. He lives and works in Cleveland.