Stephen Kogon was born and raised in Maryland, growing up primarily in the city of Columbia, where he first began to exercise his imagination by spending many hours alone in his room creating new worlds and characters. While his parents worried he was far too young to be living the life of a recluse, little did they know that the seeds of a storyteller were instead being grown. Fortunately, their worries were eased when he would periodically leave the room to put on a dazzling show of some sort, enlisting his younger sister to play a role, as they entertained friends and family.

After high school, where the experience of Geometry and Algebra II nearly drained him of all creative initiative, he went off to college at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC). It was there that he re-discovered his passion for entertaining as he wrote and acted in comedy sketches for the campus television show.

Upon graduating, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue writing and acting. Within a year, he landed a featured role in an episode of Lifetime’s "Crimes and Confessions," playing a pasty-faced twerp.

After getting a tan, he decided to concentrate on screenwriting, whereupon one of his scripts, "The Fells Point Five," made the semifinals of the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition.

Over the next few years, he had several scripts optioned by prominent producers, including Roger Paradiso (producer of "The Thomas Crown Affair") and Jennie Lew Tugend (producer of the "Free Willy" movies).

Finally, he wrote his first novel, "Max Mooth – Cyber Sleuth and the Case of the Zombie Virus" and is hard at work on the follow up, "Max Mooth – Cyber Sleuth and the Case of the Pop-Up Piper."

I also write the Studio Reader Stan comic strip -- STUDIO READER STAN NOW A WEEKLY ANIMATED COMIC STRIP!

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