About Ross
Ross Dreiblatt is an author who was born and grew up in New York. His father was a truck driver, and his mom was a retail manager. He attended Hofstra University and moved to Los Angeles where he attended Cal State Northridge. While in Los Angeles, he studied under John Rechy’s master writing workshop at UCLA.
He has worked in the corporate offices of major retailers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Florida toiling on spreadsheets by day, and the imaginary lives of celebrity monsters by night.
He loves to travel and will get on a plane going anywhere, as long as it eventually lands safely. Despite the dour photo he is kind of a happy guy.
He currently resides in South Florida.
Ross on writing I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories:
“The idea for this book has probably been germinating for some time. When I lived in Los Angeles, you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone who was a celebrity, who worked for one or was intent on becoming one. Our culture has created a class of people who are obsessed with becoming famous or getting close to those who are. After all, celebrities represent our fantasy lives, the lives we always wished we could lead.
“We see them on TV, on our phone screens and on billboards and we begin to think that we know them, that we have a sense of who they are. But we don’t really know who they are, do we? They have become our modern-day Gods of Mount Olympus, untouchable and unknowable. As these stories demonstrate, they are not bound by our rules.
“These three stories poke a little fun at who they are and at the common mortals who get too close to the sun. But the question at hand is always…who am I? And who do I become when faced with extraordinary circumstances and choices.”