Ricardo Cortés is an artist, writer, and publisher. Cortés is perhaps best known as co-creator of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F--- to Sleep, which has been published in thirty-six languages and is forthcoming as a feature film from Fox 2000. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, and on The O'Reilly Factor, CNN, and Late Night with David Letterman. Cortés is also an experienced visual art educator, having taught for six years in the New York City public school system, and at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the 92nd St. Y in Manhattan, and with Groundswell.