Springs Toledo is an award-winning essayist and the author of Smokestack Lightning (IP, 2019), Murderers’ Row: In Search of Boxing’s Greatest Outcasts (Tora Book Publishing, 2017), In the Cheap Seats (Tora Book Publishing, 2016), and The Gods of War (Tora, 2014). His work has been featured on NPR’s Here & Now, recognized dozens of times by the Boxing Writers Association of America, and honored in The Best American Essays 2019 and 2020. He is a native of Boston, Mass.