The story underneath the story.

Over a 25-year career, I’ve written for Fortune 100 companies and tech startups, Hollywood studios and nonprofits, first-time novelists and global health leaders. I’ve participated in projects worth over $500 million across technology, entertainment, and education — and I’ve written essays, plays, and monologues in between. The common thread: I translate complex ideas and human truths into language that moves people.

My path to this work was unusual.

I graduated college with a biology degree and went straight into software development (after taking one class in my senior year), writing code under a top-secret clearance for government contractors. I taught software courses at federal agencies for a stretch, which is where I discovered I was a better explainer than I was a coder. That pivot led me into technical writing, then marketing copywriting, then eventually into as many corners of the writing world that I could wheedle my way into.

The through-line has been that I learned early how to translate information between worlds. Between engineers and executives. Between technical complexity and human meaning. Between what someone is trying to say and what they actually need to say.

That skill grew into a career.

I’ve written for business leaders and for Hollywood production companies. I was Literature Development Manager at the Shoah Foundation, ghostwriting articles for its chairman, Steven Spielberg, and helping preserve Holocaust survivor testimonies (including my mother’s). I’ve analyzed screenplays for Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Bedford Falls. I’ve led marcom strategy for companies from Fortune 100 to small business, written websites that tripled conversions, and built brands from the ground up. I’ve also written novels, plays, essays, and monologues I perform onstage. I’ve coached several first-time authors through all stages of the creative process.

What I bring to any project is the same thing, whether it’s a technical white paper or a work of microfiction: a sense that the story underneath the story is where the real gold is. Business writing fails when it forgets there’s a human on the other end. Right? Creative writing fails when it forgets there’s serious craft holding it together. I’ve spent my whole career working at the intersection of both.

I live in Fairfield, Iowa. I’m a Brooklyn native, a lifelong meditator, a joyous though hypercompetivive pickleball player, a Baltimore Orioles fan, and a lover of the arts and the occasional silent retreat. I write because it’s the work I’ve always come back to.

If you’re building something that needs words, voice, or meaning, let’s talk.

“Warren’s skills are strong, deep, and diverse. I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing his creativity as novelist, playwright, short story author, feature writer, and creator of business and marketing copy – all of it crisp, well-crafted and compelling.”  Thom Krystofiak, author of Tempted to Believe