Ruben R. Diaz hails from the “magic” city of Miami, Florida. Born to Cuban immigrants, Ruben fell in love with storytelling, first through books, then through the films of Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Danny Boyle. But it was in the most peculiar of high school classrooms — a health class — where an assignment to write a story inspired him to create a tale that would circulate throughout the school. It was then writing became a career choice. For the next 20 years, he served as a web content creator, copywriter, and pop-culture journalist, and blogger. Over the past several years he’s written several TV pilots, plays, graphic novels, and five award-winning short films, including PUT YOUR LIPS TOGETHER AND BLOW, a Christopher Guest-esque comedy about the rise and fall of a competitive whistler. In 2016, Ruben wrote KALI MAH TINA, an independent feature film which received the Audience Award at the 2017 Fort Lauderdale Film Festival. He fears no genre, or challenge, and loves writing diverse groups of characters in stories that strike a balance between action, humor, and drama. Ruben is 41, travels regularly but lives in Miami.