About
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.
Featured Work
I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories
I AM NOT BRAD PITT
and Other Stories
I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories is a collection of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions.
The title story, “I Am Not Brad Pitt,” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder.
The second story, “Please Allow me to Introduce Myself,” considers the possibility that Mr. Richards (along with, for good measure, Dolly Parton) is, indeed, a vampire. Nobel-Prize laureate Bob Dylan, the story’s vampire-killer, is equipped with more than just a harmonica and tambourine.
The final work in the collection, “Keeping Compliant with the Kardashians,” examines whether Kardashian family members are, in fact, aliens from another galaxy and what precisely is their interest on Earth.
Each of the stories is told with engaging humor, and each pokes fun more at American culture than they do, generally, of the celebrities themselves.
