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Henry Turner grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, in Roland Park, one of America's oldest neighborhoods. He attended local public schools and later studied at various universities in the area. While in his teens he began making films, producing, writing and directing five independent features and numerous shorts over a period of a decade. His award-winning feature films, Wilbur Whateley's Sex Drive, Trashmonster, and Pym played at various festivals throughout the country. During his years of filmmaking he developed his interest in fiction writing, and wrote five apprentice novels. In 1995 he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as filmmaker liaison and headed the short film competition for the Slamdance International Film Festival. In 1999 he published the novella Beyond Pookaville. He now heads Newfilmmakers L.A., a weekly film series showcasing new independent films from around the world. In 1997, while living in Athens, Greece, he dedicated his efforts to writing the first draft of Hasten to the Place, a coming of age novel set among racial and class tensions in an exclusive East Coast neighborhood. Over the last three years Henry has been a member of the internationally renowned novelist John Rechy's Writers' Workshop, in which he revised Hasten to the Place. Henry is currently having his first script, Above The Line produced, putting the finishing touches to two new scripts, and has finished the first draft of a new novel.
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