Devin was born in Brunswick, Georgia, in 1978. Growing up watching countless horror films due to many childhood maladies, he harbored a love of writing with an active imagination.

Even through high school and college, graduating with a degree in Computer Science, he pursued his study of screenwriting, culminating in the production of The Cursed in 2007.

He is also the author of two books on screenwriting: Horror Screenwriting: The Nature of Fear and A Practical Handbook for the Screenwriter and has contributed several short stories to the anthologies 100 Stories for Queensland, Eighty Nine, and From Stage Door Shadows.

He is currently working on the web series Asphalt She-Wolves, as producer and co-writer, and also another book.