I was born August 7, 1979 in Madison,WI. My writing career started at around age 5 when my parents took me to a paper mill and one of the employees gave me a free box of their product. The first thing I recall jotting down was an account of a nightmare I'd had involving an evil wall hanging. By age 7, I was filling notebooks with detailed, surreal narratives about adventurous stuffed animals, vicious pirates, and otherwordly dimensions. I dabbled a bit with poetry in my teen years, both traditional and rap. While attending UW-Madison, I started writing screenplays, first for more...