The story underneath the story.

Over a 25+ year career, I’ve written for global companies, technology innovators, universities, nonprofits, Hollywood studios, executives, and authors. I’ve also written novels, essays, plays, scripts, and monologues.

The common thread is something I discovered early: I’m good at taking complicated ideas and human truths and finding the language that makes them clear, meaningful, and compelling.

My path was not linear.

I graduated from college with a biology degree and moved straight into software development, writing code under a top-secret clearance for government contractors. I later taught software courses at federal agencies, which is where I discovered I was a better explainer than I was a coder.

That pivot led me into technical writing, then marketing and communications, and eventually into just about every corner of the writing world I could reach.

The through-line has been learning how to translate between worlds: between engineers and executives, technical complexity and human meaning, and between what someone is trying to say and what they actually need to say.

That skill grew into a career.

In one role, I managed communications for the Shoah Foundation, the Holocaust oral history project founded and chaired by Steven Spielberg, where I wrote its public-facing materials, ghostwrote articles for Spielberg, and helped preserve survivor testimony — including my mother’s.

I’ve analyzed screenplays for Universal Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, and the Bedford Falls Company. I’ve led brand and communications work for technology and global certification companies, written for universities and nonprofits, and directed a website rewrite that increased conversions 280%.

Alongside that work, I’ve written novels, plays, essays, and scripts and helped authors develop and complete their own books.

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What I bring to the work

Whether it’s a major report, a corporate video, an executive article, or a book, I’m usually searching for the same thing: the story underneath the story.

Business writing fails when it forgets there’s a human being on the other end. Creative writing fails when it forgets there’s serious craft that must hold it together. I’ve spent much of my career pursuing the intersection of the two.

My strength is editorial judgment — seeing the structure inside complicated or unformed material, finding what matters most, and shaping it into something clear, credible, and alive.

Today I work as a senior writer, editor, and communications strategist, helping organizations and leaders sharpen important communications and helping authors bring ambitious projects fully to life.

I live in Fairfield, Iowa. I’m a Brooklyn native, a lifelong meditator, a hypercompetitive (though joyous) pickleball player, a Baltimore Orioles fan, a lover of the arts, and an occasional participant in silent retreats.

I write because it’s the work I always come back to.

If you’re building something that needs words, voice, structure, 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