John G. Rodwan, Jr., is the author of the essay collections Fighters & Writers and Holidays & Other Disasters. His nonfiction and poems have appeared in journals and magazines such as Fifth Estate, Blood and Thunder, Midwestern Gothic, Maryland Literary Review, Palimpsest, Free Inquiry, The Humanist, Critical Moment, U.S. News & World Report, and The Brooklyn Rail. His writing has also appeared in several anthologies, including A Detroit Anthology and Detroit Neighborhood Guide (both published by Belt), Heaven Was Detroit (Wayne State University Press) and Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music (Michigan State University Press). He lives in Detroit.