About the Author

Author Michael Eric Stein has been a novelist, playwright, television writer (Miami Vice, the CBS television movie Higher Ground), screenwriter, video producer, and a journalist writing on film, rock, jazz, and Hawaiian music and culture for Films In Review in New York, the Los Angeles Times, and Maui No Ka Oi Magazine, where he wrote about politics, business, travel, cultural affairs, the arts, and music, and won two statewide Hawaii Publishers Association Pa'i awards for the magazine. He is a graduate of Yale University and the New York University Graduate School of Film and Television, and currently lives in New York City