J J AloJ.J. Alo is a commercial actor, writer, and author of A SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND HORROR. ​As a lover of the macabre, J.J. has spent several years writing award-winning horror screenplays and novels creating his Horror anthology series notoriously laden wth inherently flawed, complex characters and antiheroes. ​THE STREET BETWEEN THE PINES has been awarded the President's Book Award medal for the Florida Authors & Publishers Association and has placed FINALIST in two novel competitions: Chanticleer Intl Book Awards Competitions, and the Killer Nashville Claymore Award Competition. STREET is featured in the January 2024 issue of Kirkus Reviews magazine and has received critical appraise from several editorial publications. His screenplay has won numerous accolades in the Best Horror/Thriller categories in several screenwriting competitions, some of which include the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, Fright Night Film Fest, and Zed Fest Film Festival & Screenplay Competition to name a few. J.J. lives and works out of his Connecticut Shoreline home with six insane cats and spends his time visiting coffee shops, movie theaters, and concert venues. He is a lifelong pop culture nerd, ComicCon & cosplay fanatic, avid gym enthusiast, and subpar snowboarder. (he tries!) And he'll never say no to a perfectly shaken dirty martini. Never. Read More Read Less