Contact: d.maass@gmail.com

Bio: In contexts better left unexplained, Dave Maass has been called a "tortured genius" by the Tucson Weekly, a "budding Hemingway" by the Arizona Republic, an "intellectual masturbator" by The Inlander, a "super nudge" by The Stranger, "very nice" by Douglas Coupland, and Michael Moore once wrote him a letter of recommendation, which he never submitted anywhere, then misplaced. A staff writer for the Sante Fe Reporter, Maass can be spotted puttering around on a blue scooter with a yorkie mutt strapped to his chest. He blogs at Maassive.com.

Favorite Sites: RottenTomatoes.com, Truthout.org and Del.icio.us

Favorite Quote: "You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again...The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that--well, lucky you." - Philip Roth, American Pastoral