ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Jack A. Kemper is a screenwriter, play-write, essayist, poet, and film lover from the quiet left-hand corner of the Pacific Northwest. He cut his teeth in the shadows of Tacoma and Bainbridge Island’s art scenes, scribbling through zine stacks, writing workshops, and the kind of coffee shops that still smell like ink.

In 2021, he left the Washington overcast for the soft, bruised haze of Los Angeles, where he’s been clawing his way through the screenwriting grind—turning a lifelong obsession with movies into something more than late-night rants and nostalgic rewatches.

Along the way, Jack has embraced film criticism as a natural extension of his passion for cinema. Now, he’s writing films, plays, poems, and criticism that all circle one obsession: storytelling. He explores film with a critical eye and offers fresh insights—while still keeping his love for storytelling at the heart of it all.

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