Dana Adam Shapiro was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for his first film, Murderball, a documentary about the United States Paralympic Quad Rugby Team. His latest film, Monogamy, starring Chris Messina and Rashida Jones, is nominated for a 2011 Independent Spirit Award and will be released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories. His 2007 animated short about unrequited love and recycling, My Biodegradable Heart, was an official selection at Sundance and many other festivals around the world. His debut novel, The Every Boy (published by Houghton Mifflin), was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a 2005 Book Sense Notable Book. Other projects include Holler, a film about segregated proms in the South, which he wrote and will be produced by Screen Gems in 2011, and American Family, a documentary-in-progress about interracial couples. Shapiro is a former senior editor at Spin, a founding editor and senior writer of ICON magazine, and he is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other publications. He was the 2007 Artist-in-Residence at Bucknell University and currently lives in Venice, California.