A Brooklyn native, Richard Grayson is the author of the short story collections I Brake for Delmore Schwartz, Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog, The Silicon Valley Diet, I Survived Caracas Tr...view moreA Brooklyn native, Richard Grayson is the author of the short story collections I Brake for Delmore Schwartz, Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog, The Silicon Valley Diet, I Survived Caracas Traffic, And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street, Highly Irregular Stories, and Who Will Kiss the Pig?: Sex Stories for Teens. His nonfiction has appeared online at McSweeney’s and Thought Catalog, and in such magazines and newspapers as People, The New York Times, Newsday, The San Jose Mercury News, The Orlando Sentinel, The Arizona Republic, The Miami Herald, and The Tampa Tribune. The recipient of three Individual Artist Fellowships in Literature from the Florida Arts Council and a Writer-in-Residence Award from the New York State Council on the arts, Grayson has been a lawyer and college professor. In 2012, he finished in third place in the Arizona Green Party presidential preference primary. He lives in Brooklyn, Phoenix, and Fort Lauderdale.view less