Chris Vander Kaay is a filmmaker, author, professor, and legal marketing consultant. His western script The Redemption of Henry Myers premiered on the Hallmark Movie Channel in 2014, and his found footage horror film .ask is available online. He has written several nonfiction books about the history and philosophy of genre film. He has written numerous articles and short fiction, and his fiction novel, Life After Death, was released in 2020.

He taught scriptwriting at the University of Tampa, and he brings his storytelling skills to the world of marketing with his company We Are Your Neon, LLC, a creative consulting firm and production/distribution company. He is a wildly versatile writer, having worked everywhere from the LDS newspaper Deseret News to the horror news website Bloody Disgusting.