Jesse P. Pollack was born and raised in the Garden State of New Jersey. His first book, "Death on the Devil’s Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey", co-authored with Weird NJ's Mark Moran, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim and nominated for a New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award. Also an accomplished musician, Pollack’s soundtrack work has been heard on Driving Jersey, an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary series. He is married with two children.