Biography
Sparrow Hall is an American author, producer and a leading innovator in transmedia storytelling. His recent titles, Nightwork and Two Blue Wolves, reimagine how we experience a narrative by offering it as a complete multi-media experience—employing prose, music, video and visual art to tell a single story. Proceeds from Two Blue Wolves are going to benefit Alzheimer’s Disease research—a cause that holds personal meaning to Hall who was a caregiver himself.
Sparrow Hall is the leading authority in independent transmedia storytelling and the editor-in-chief of The Silver Thread, an online journal focused on innovation, collaboration and the creative process. He has served as a creative consultant for a number of global brands and non-for-profits, including Bono's Product (RED)™ initiative, helping to eliminate AIDS in Africa, and Orphans of Rwanda, dedicated to furthering education, economic development and social reconciliation.
Hall's short story, “Ms. W. is Out Today” was featured in the February 2008 issue of Pomp & Circumstance Magazine, and his collaboration with fellow writer Paul G. Maziar, entitled “Winter Bunker,” was included in the 2009 anthology The Good Things About America published by Write Bloody.
As a singer/songwriter, Hall performs as one half of the electro pop duo, A Crowd Electric (ACE). Together, with creative partner David Crabb, ACE has produced remixes for Madonna and Britney Spears, and has received top mentions in the dance music category.
Sparrow Hall is a graduate of Bennington College and lives in upstate New York and Los Angeles.
For more information, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_Hall.
Critic Reviews
"Beyond the beauty of the story, the music, the art—there is a sound that accompanies the arrival of Sparrow Hall’s Two Blue Wolves. It is the bang of innovation, and it is ushering in a vibrant new era of storytelling."
-Linda Kaplan Thaler
Bestselling Author & Media Mogul
"[Sparrow Hall's] vision and passion for what he does—not to mention his talent—reaches far beyond the writing. I am truly inspired."
-Catherine Mangosing
MyTurtleneck: Documenting Inspiration
"Sparrow Hall has created a dynamic community around a short story of love found, then lost. The story speaks directly to a generation affected by distant wars and domestic conflicts, and gives voice to their unheard sighs."
-Kastoory Kazi
Pomp & Circumstance Magazine
"…exceptionally talented… a splendidly promising young writer of practically boundless inventiveness..."
-Edward Hoagland
American Essayist & Novelist
