Larry Gross is a Society of Professional Journalists award winning author. Among other publications, he's a contributing writer for CityBeat, an alternative newsweekly in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has also written a column for that publication called "Living Out Loud" for the past eleven years. His first book, published in 2005, is a collection of short stories. A second book, published in 2009, features essays from his CityBeat column. Gross published his first novel in 2013 and a novella in 2014. He lives in Covington, Kentucky.