Joseph Eastburn lived for 14 years in New York City where his parents met on stage in 1941.
As an actor, he appeared in over thirty productions including Salome with David McCallum and Harry Hamlin at the San Antonio Theatre Festival, and A Study in Scarlet with Alec Baldwin at the Williamstown Theatre Festival— there, two of his plays were also workshopped— one, Heart’s Desire, featured three Tony Award-winning actors: Patricia Elliott, George Grizzard, and Donna Murphy. His play, The Godhead, won the 17th Annual One-Act Play Festival at USC where he earned his Masters and taught writing for 10 years.
His first novel, Kiss Them Goodbye, was published by Morrow in 1993, and HarperCollins brought it back in paper and eBook in January, 2016.
Besides writing psychological suspense novels, plays and screenplays, his essays, short stories, and poems have been published in fine literary journals like: Reed Magazine, Sliver of Stone, The Tower Journal, Slow Trains, Alabama Literary Review, Adelaide, Crack the Spine, The Sand Hill Review, Existere, Forge, Hobo Pancakes, storySouth, the Penmen Review, Shark Reef, the T.J. Eckleburg Review, and The Sun Magazine.
With his daughter back from college, Joe lives in the Los Angeles area with his family and their demon cat, Sadie. He still drives a beautiful old wreck of a sports car, vintage 1985.