David Brazil was born in New York and lives in California. His first full-length, The Ordinary, is just out from Compline Press. Bob Rosenthal’s is the author of the poetry collections: Morning Poems, Lies About the Flesh, Rude Awakenings, Viburnum and, Eleven Psalms, among others. His prose works include Straight Around Allen and Cleaning Up New York. Straight Around Allen was serialized on the New York Times blog, “The Local East Village.”