Frank Anthony Polito is an award-winning author and playwright. His novels include the Lambda Award-winning Drama Queers!, Lost in the '90s, The Spirit of Detroit, and Band Fags!, among many others, and his plays have been produced around the country. He holds an MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon and a BFA in theatre from Wayne State. After growing up in the Detroit suburbs, Polito lived in New York City for eighteen years before moving to Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, with his partner Craig Bentley and their two dogs. They live in a 1924 Craftsman Colonial that they purchased on HGTV's House Hunters and have been renovating together since 2013.