Jeff Polman

Jeff Polman was born in Connecticut, grew up in Western Massachusetts and graduated from the BDIC program at the University of Mass. in Amherst. He worked for the Advocate Newspapers and Boston Phoenix before becoming Arts Editor for the Vermont Vanguard Press in Burlington, VT its first five years. Having enjoyed his time as a student filmmaker, he moved to Los Angeles in 1982 to pursue screenwriting. He has written over 20 scripts and has had two low-budget thrillers produced, Grave Secrets (1989) and Benefit of the Doubt (1993), a Miramax release which starred Donald Sutherland and Amy Irving.

Baseball has long been one of his passions, and his season replay blogs have all been turned into published books: 1924 AND YOU ARE THERE!, Play That Funky Baseball (released as BALL NUTS), MYSTERY BALL '58, and TWINBILL (featuring "Dear Hank" and the Bragging Rights League"). He has also written Web articles for The Huffington Post, ChicagoSide Sports, Fire Brand of the American League, Seamheads, The Hardball Times, Baseball Prospectus, New England Baseball Journal, and The Platoon Advantage.

THE INVASION OF NORMANDIE (2017), is a timely comic fable about the allure and dangers of celebrity.

RED JACARANDAS (2022) is a unique trio of "weird tales" about Los Angeles, two original screenplays wrapped around a short novel. Having grown up in New England watching countless scary movies as a youth, this was a return to his supernatural thriller roots.

THE PORCH ROOF CLASSIC, his new novel, is a humorous, nostalgic journey back to 1970 Massachusetts and the adolescent world of 14-year-old Joey Tosh, who survives a junior high bullying incident to take on his nemesis in a no-holds-barred Wiffle ball game for town bragging rights.

The author lives in Culver City, CA with his artist wife Carmen Patti and handsome Australian Shepherd Sydney.