Everyone has embarrassing dating stories. Some of us just have more than others. I have enough for an entire book.

Among the highlights: following a break-up with my high school girlfriend, the first girl I asked out in college was a lesbian. In fact, my entire college dating resume involved one gaffe and foible after another—like having a crush on someone who invited me out with her friends, which included a boyfriend that she had never mentioned. And finally asking out a barista that I had a crush on by writing her a note asking her to go out with me—complete with checkboxes! She was married. And though not certain, I presumably became a laughingstock at my favorite coffee shop.

Yet I have never lost hope.

R.J. Fox is the award-winning writer of several short stories, plays, poems, a memoir, and 15 feature length screenplays. His first book – a memoir entitled Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in Ukraine was published by Fish Out of Water Books, who also published his fiction debut: Awaiting Identification. Both books are in development as feature films. His third book is a collection of essays entitled Tales From the Dork Side.

His work has been published in over 30 literary magazines and journals.

Fox graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English and a minor in Communications and received a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Fox teaches film and literature in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, where he uses his own dream to inspire his students to follow their own.