Stephen Sonneveld

Stephen Sonneveld is a recipient of the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival Outstanding Playwright Award, Warner Bros. Short Romantic Story Competition, had screenplays advance at the Austin Heart of Screenwriting Film Festival, was a finalist in the New York Television Festival ION First Act Competition, among regional and collegiate awards. He freelanced for MAD Magazine, Kappa Publishing Group, home of Pro Wrestling Illustrated and the Wrestler/Inside Wrestling, Windy City Times and Bleacher Report. Sonneveld founded Puglish Books in 2007 to publish children's books that cut a deeper nerve than what he was seeing in the marketplace. The inaugural publication, PANDORA'S LUNCHBOX (created with Andrew Krzak), focused on the effects of childhood bullying. Blogcritics Magazine hailed, "Unlike other books on the same subject, Sonneveld and Krzak open us up to the harsh reality of bullying," and called the book, "pure emotion."