While Ken Kupstis is a charming, hardworking Catholic boy, his alter-ego K.K. is the horrific combination of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, MOTORHEAD, Steel Reserve Malt Liquor, Playboy magazine and every horror movie ever made! (Curiously, however, he remains a crime-free upstanding citizen! Take THAT, ya 'violent art inspires violent behavior' Draconians!) Seriously, my shout-outs go to JAMES HERBERT (Britain's TOP DAWG! Sorry Clive!), Stephen King (who isn't influenced by him?), Clive Barker, Skipp & Spector (Don't MAKE me hunt you two down and staple you together!), David Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert McCammon, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bible, Dungeons & Dragons, Blue Oyster Cult, Manowar, Dream Theatre, ETC.!Much THANKS to the creative influences of my father Richard Kupstis, My Aunt Marjorie Minervini, Uncles Joe & Bob for the comedy, Educators Rose Zangari, Elaine Bucci, Richard Raleigh, IDS, the Wesleyan University CCY program, St. Thomas University, John Zarrella & CNN, TERROR ON CHURCH STREET, Improv Now and IMPROS.As for my BACKGROUND, it's CLASSIFIED and I'm damned proud of it...

Bachelor's Degree In Communication Arts; Member of HORROR WRITERS OF AMERICA and SCREEN ACTOR'S GUILD; Author of ROCK HER WORLD! A Man's Guide To Women (www.rockherworld.net), CLOWNWHITE: A COMEDY OF HORRORS (on 1stbooks.com) INHUMAN RESOURCES (On Iuniverse/Amazon), Published in GHOSTBREAKERS: NEW HORRORS, (THWN'S) VOICES FROM A DARK FUTURE/NEW VOICES IN HORROR, BE MINE, CHIC, INTO THE DARKNESS, FLORIDA MAGAZINE, ORLANDO SENTINEL, APRICORN ANTHOLOGY, CREATIO EX NIHILO, BLEEDING SKY, TERROR TALES U.K., FLASHSHOT YEAR ONE, VEGAS ROCKS! and Reviewer for WWW.CRYPTMAGAZINE.COM. Appears in the films THE CASINO JOB, GO, BIOHAZARD: THE ALIEN FORCE, IMMORTAL, and in numerous stage productions.