Rick Lupert has been a central figure in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. Known for his wit and travel-inflected observation, he draws on everyday life, Judaism, and the pleasures of the mundane to create accessible, humorous verse. He is the author of more than twenty-seven collections, including God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion, The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express, and I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii (Ain't Got No Press). He founded the Poetry Super Highway, an online resource for poets, and hosted the Cobalt Cafe reading series for over twenty years. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ted Slade Award and the 2014 Beyond Baroque Distinguished Service Award, and is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.