Bio:Brian Jaime

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Brian Christopher Jaime (aka Brian Jaime) is a writer/poet/playwright from West Covina, CA. He has had short stories & poetry published in several anthologies & publications (including: Embark to Madness, Dead Men and Women Walking: An Anthology of Things Undead, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, & FlashShot). He also made it to the top three of The New Camp Horror's 2004 Dark Idol competition. In addition, his play Nighty-Night was showcased, along with seven other one act plays, in MTSAC's one act play festival of the same title.

Born in March of 1977, he is a Pisces. Since watching Star Wars & Halloween as a young child, Brian has always had a love for horror, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, and speculative genres. Most of his works resides in those areas.

He started off as a writer/poet and his creative repertoire has grown to include play writing, screenwriting, acting, singing, directing, and design. His hobbies include photography, healthy living, cryptozoology, tarot cards, and reading.

He currently lives in West Covina, CA and attends college. He often can be seen at poetry open mics or walking his two dogs, one of whom he named after a character from the popular TV show "Charmed".

Fun Facts:

• He has irrational fears of bunnies, winged insects, & heights.
• He was on the Academic Decathlon team in high school.
• He placed in the Top 3 of The New Camp Horror's 2004 Dark Idol competition.
• He is so obsessed with cryptozoology that he once visited the world's largest Bigfoot museum in Willow Glen, CA.
• His favorite coffee shop is Starbucks.
• He studied abroad in London for a semester focusing on British Literature.
• While visiting poet John Keats' house in Hampstead Heath, he broke into tears when showed where Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale.
• He also broke into tears staring at an original copy of the Canterbury Tales at the British Library.
• His favorite fiction writers include: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Charlaine Harris, Michael Scott, and J.K. Rowling.
• His favorite poets include: Edgar Allen Poe, Pablo Neruda, John Keats, William Butler Yates, e.e. Cumings, A.E. Milne, and Dr. Seuss.
• He once got in FREE to Fangoria Magazine's weekend of horrors by posing as a film producer for a fictional studio.
• John Carpenter once signed his beloved Michael Meyers doll and told him "This is the first one I've ever signed. Cool."
• He was later offered $500 for the Michael Meyers doll, to which he declined.
• He is a typical California guy and can normally be seen wearing shorts and flipflops.
• He once met the cast of Roswell, while on location, and they shared their pizza and donuts with him.
• He has been said to have encountered the elusive Dub-C Munchie of West Covina, CA a confirmed three times.
• Because of his brushes with the paranormal and his ability to read tarot cards, he was cast in the 2011 Game Show Network reboot of the hit television game show 1 vs 100, in which he portrayed a "Psychic to the Stars".