Gil Kaplan lives in Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in the History and Literature of England. He grew up in upstate New York (Endicott) and his two kids live in Brooklyn and Astoria, Queens. His writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, and the Detroit Free Press, among other publications. He won an award for the best short story by a new contributor from the Pendulum literary magazine, and Glimmer Train recognized one of his stories as among the 25 best of over a thousand submitted. He is an expert on how to revive U.S. manufacturing.