a.c. frieden's TITLES

Robby Henson is a filmmaker, screenwriter, theater director, playwright and arts-behind-bars instructor. He received his M.F.A. from NYU’s graduate film school and has written and directed several documentaries for PBS as well as five feature films for major studios - The Badge, Pharaoh’s Army, The Visitation, House and Thr3e.  His films have been seen at Sundance and around the world and he is a member of the Writers Guild of America. He currently teaches screenwriting at the University of Kentucky and is also Artistic Director of Pioneer Playhouse, a regional theater in central Kentucky, where he runs their outreach program Voices Inside that instructs incarcerated writers in writing and performance skills so as to fight recidivism. 

Steven Jankowski was born and raised in The Bronx, NY and spent most of his adult life hustling a living in the entertainment business. He spent the first ten years out of high school working as a stagehand in the 1970’s NYC Rock & Roll music scene, and on the road as a band roadie and road manager.  In the mid-8o’s he returned to school to study film at Hunter College, and then moved to Los Angeles to earn his MFA in Screenwriting at USC. Since then Steve has written or co-written over 30 screenplays with nine of them having been produced.

In the spring of 1999, Steve took a sabbatical from work to sail a 42-foot boat from Los Angeles to Tahiti with 3 other people. Steve continues to write for the screen and sails his 34-foot Catalina sailboat whenever he can.

BELOW THE LINE marks Steven’s first foray into fiction writing and draws from his many years of experience in the film and music industries, as well as his love of sailing. Steven currently resides in the Los Angeles port city of San Pedro, CA.

Nolan Knight is the author of The Gorgon of Los Feliz, Gallows Dome, The Neon Lights Are Veins, and Beneath the Black Palms. He is a fourth generation Angeleno and former staff writer for Los Angeles’ Biggest Music Publication, the L.A. Record. His short fiction has been featured in various publications including Akashic Books, Thuglit, Shotgun Honey, Starlite Pulp, and Action, Spectacle. His work has been met with praise by luminaries such as Barry Gifford, James Sallis, Allison Anders, and Lydia Lunch. He lives in Long Beach. Publishers Weekly calls Knight’s prose “a perfect fit for characters whose dreams die slowly or explosively,” while Kirkus Reviews hails his writing as “unapologetically confrontational, grimly poignant—a gritty depiction of L.A. vice and vicissitude.”

Jim is the author of Holland Bay, The Dogs of Beaumont Heights, and Winter of Discontent from Down & Out Press. Jim has also published in Murder, Neat, Janie’s Got a Gun, and episodes of Mysteries to Die For.

He is also the creator of the Nick Kepler PI series and Road Rules, a Elmore Leonardesque romp from Cleveland to Florida that ends in Savannah, Georgia.