Alan Perry

Alan Perry was born and raised in the Philadelphia area, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism/ advertising from Temple University.  After graduating, he moved to San Diego, where he published several short stories while working in the graphics industry for almost 15 years. He then moved back east and worked as a news reporter for a paper on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He moved across the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore, where he worked in the advertising department of The Baltimore Sun for nine years. While working at The Sun, he earned his master’s degree in instructional design from Towson University. He began teaching screenwriting classes at Chesapeake Community College when he relocated to Maryland and still teaches a class at Anne Arundel Community College.  He lives in Federal Hill with his wife, Larraine.

He wrote about struggling to work in the Blizzard of 2003.