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.