Tom Leveen is an award-winning author and Bram Stoker Award-nominee of nine novels with imprints of Random House and Simon & Schuster and others, and almost a decade of professional teaching experience, and he has written for the comic book Spawn. He has been a keynote speaker and guest lecturer at universities, writers associations, schools, conferences, and conventions in the U.S. and abroad. He brings more than twenty years of experience as a live theater actor and director to his fiction and his classrooms, marking him as an expert in dialogue for all mediums of storytelling.