Jack Deadmen is the author of Nobody Special: The Death of Johnny Salinger, and its follow-up prequel, Nobody Special: Cursed is the Road to the American Dream. He has penned one stage play (Redemption) and nine screenplays (including Wheatfield with Crows, co-written with director Brent Roske). He is the founder of A Raven Desk Tome, and co-founder of Dystopian Pictures. A former member of the Working Filmmaker’s Group (Hollywood) and the American Federation of Film Producers (Los Angeles), he has been a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild since 1993. Jack Deadmen is most notably a member of the SoCal-based underground poet society "Canaries in the Mine." Born in Southern California, he currently lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is married and has two daughters.