If you’re reading this page, you apparently want to know about me. So here goes:

I’m a Midwesterner by heart, and a Los Angeleno by choice. Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I grew up working at my dad’s manufacturing company outside Detroit and dreaming of becoming a professional soccer player. In college, I played on two nationally-ranked soccer teams—Wake Forest University and The College of Wooster—and wrote a senior thesis of short stories. After college, I worked as a barista in Oxford, England; a machinist in Belleville, Michigan; and a soccer coach in New York City and Ann Arbor. Then I decided it was time to get real about life. So I decided to become a writer. But as Gerald the Elephant says about learning to throw a ball in Watch me Throw the Ball: “It takes skill. It takes practice. It takes skill AND practice.”

So I earned an MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, where I developed a daily writing routine, taught English, rode a road bike in the country hills, and fell in love with literary crime—inspired by the work of Dostoevsky, Pete Dexter, and Patricia Highsmith. After grad school, I supported my wife and young children through the Great Recession working as a copywriter in Chicago, but then we fled the cold and snow of the City of Big Shoulders for the warmth and sun and mountains of the City of Angeles.

I built a journalism career out of a few clips in a small-town weekly newspaper and a soccer writing blog, and went on to be a Contributing Writer for ESPN: The Magazine, and write for The New York Times, Grantland.com, Los Angeles Magazine, and other outlets.

After working in journalism, I earned a certificate in TV Writing from UCLA, winning the school’s Pilot Award, and have spent about a decade writing, developing, and pitching scripted and unscripted projects to places like NBC Universal, HBO, ABC, Warner Brothers, and Disney+.

These days, I write literary crime novels and crime/drama TV pilots and screenplays. In my day job, I work freelance writing copy and developing content for companies like the NFL, General Motors, and Walmart. I’m a single father to three wonderful children and one wild Australian Shepherd, and I divide my time between Los Angeles, California, and Leelanau County, Michigan. I drink my coffee black, drive a 1994 Toyota 4Runner, and when I’m not writing, working, reading, or parenting, I’m usually walking my dog, running intervals, lifting weights, or playing soccer—but never all four at the same time.

My favorite sign off is Go get ‘em. So:

Go get ‘em.

--Andrew