Popular Culture Review Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2015 | Page 134

Ross Talarico is an award winning author whose most recent book is the novel, SLED RUN. New poems have recently appeared in Voices in Italia-Americana. He lives in San Diego. Michelle Villanueva is a candidate for the MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is also an attorney whose academic interests involve rhetorical strategies providing greater access to court and negotiation processes for historically underrepresented groups. Her hobbies include cooking and traveling. 130