I've been writing since I was a boy in Flatbrookville, New Jersey, a town of, perhaps, 400 people that no longer exists.  I've read all my life, a lot of science fiction, but not exclusively.  I loved (still love) Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradburry.  Orson Scott Card.  I became very annoyed by Heinlein. I devoured Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide books. Reading Samuel Delany's Dhalgren taught me that you can write surrealism. Not entirely a geek, I also read Shakespear, Christopher Fry, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, among other dramatists.   My father Rowell Hoff is a (brilliant) poet and from him I learned a love of words.  He's sort of dry.  I get my boisterous energy from my mother, who was Italian and a bohemian. Moved to Spokane, Washington when I was 13, and Los Angeles when I was 23.  I'm still there.  I've published one novel, a satirical soap opera called Weeping Willow: Welcome to River Bend, and co-write the popular web series Poor Paul.  I love movies more than an adult person should.

Was a Webbie Awards 2009 Official Honoree for Best Writing for Poor Paul.