Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine, a frequent contributor to public radio's This American Life, and the author of a book of personal essays, My Heart Is An Idiot, and a collection of stories, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ Magazine and Grantland, and he and his work have been profiled inThe New Yorker and The New York Times.
His Emmy-nominated documentary film, Medora, about a resilient high-school basketball team in a dwindling Indiana town, premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival and played at more than 20 other festivals before its theatrical release that fall. Medora was named one of the best films of the year by NPR, The Washington Post, and the Village Voice, among others, and aired nationally on the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens, for which it received an Emmy Award nomination. Previously, he directed two films about the political activist punk rock band Rise Against, which became bestselling music DVDs in the USA, Canada, Germany, and a dozen other countries.
Rothbart is also the founder of Washington To Washington, an annual hiking adventure for inner-city kids. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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