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Paul G. Bens, Jr.
Born in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, far too many years ago to be honest about,
Paul G. Bens, Jr., has spent the majority of his adult life in the entertainment industry. His first foray into Hollywoodland was as a casting assistant on low budget feature films. He then graduated to Casting Associate and worked for three years on the NBC hit series Night Court as well as a dozen other short-lived series. As a film and television Casting Director he was responsible for the principal casting of yet even lower budget feature films, as well as the television series Ned & Stacey, Malcolm & Eddie, Likely Suspects, and Murder in Small Town X.
Outside of casting, Bens has been many things: a film producer, a file clerk, an altar boy, a bartender, a boy scout and, for a second-and-a-half, an actor. As an author, Bens' short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, The Egg Box, Outsider Ink, Scared Naked, HeavyGlow, Bleeding Quill, Twisted Tongue, Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction, Chick Flicks, and Dark Discoveries (forthcoming).
Currently, Bens works for a historic Hollywood film studio. He lives in the Los Angeles area with his ever-patient boyfriend and 43 goldfish. When not writing, he can generally be found driving around smoggy Los Angeles, singing along to Van Halen, Def Leppard or The Smashing Pumpkins, and daydreaming about living full time in Hawai‘i.
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