Michael Salita

Michael Salita was born in Odessa, Ukraine and immigrated to Brooklyn in 1991 with his mother, father and his kid brother Dmitriy Salita, a professional boxer and boxing promoter in New York who won the coveted "Sugar Ray Robinson" award at the New York Golden Gloves and is a former number one welterweight contender.

Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Library and information Science and a Masters degree in Early Childhood Education and currently teaches young children in New York.

"B is for Brighton Beach" is his second book. The first was a rap novel "Golden Gloves", a story about his boxing brother, a tournament champion.