Author Michael Eric Stein has been a novelist, playwright, television writer - Miami Vice, the CBS television movie Higher Ground - and a journalist writing on film, rock (including Woodstock, for the Riverdale Press, while still in high school), jazz, and Hawaiian music and culture for Films In Review, the Los Angeles Times, and Maui No Ka Oi 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.