Andrew Robert Colom is a writer, producer, and filmmaker. He is the founder of Story ARC, a creative development company building original work in fiction, film, and music.

Born and raised in Columbus, MS, the son of a civil rights lawyer and a judge. He received a full merit scholarship from The New York Times to pursue an MFA at NYU, where he studied with E.L. Doctorow and Jayne Anne Phillips.

His short film The Flight of Calvin Waters won the Ron Beard Award at the Magnolia Film Festival. One Sweet Night (2020), starring J.D. Williams of The Wire, holds an IMDb 8.2. He co-founded Century Partners in 2014, a multimillion-dollar development company reshaping the Rust Belt.

He invented Rap Fiction, a literary genre applying the truth-telling of rap to prose. His first Rap Fiction novel is currently in submission. He produces original music and is building a stage musical based on his father Wilbur Colom’s life in the Mississippi civil rights movement.