Robert Loss is an assistant professor in the Writing, Literature, and Philosophy department at Columbus College of Art and Design, USA. His music criticism and journalism have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Ghettoblaster, and PopMatters, where he writes a monthly column. He is currently working on another book of music criticism and a novel about a young rock musician in the late 1990s. His short fiction has appeared in various journals including MAYDAY and 2 Bridges Review. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and their cat.