Robert N. Skir grew up in Oyster Bay, Long Island. His love of all things fantasy, science fiction and horror led him to make animated films at fourteen, latex masks at sixteen and short stories throughout high school. He majored in English at the University of Virginia and earned a master’s degree in screenwriting at UCLA.

He has written many episodes of animated television, including Beetlejuice, X-Men, Batman and Superman, and has served as story editor and writer for The Mask, Extreme Ghostbusters, Godzilla and Transformers: Beast Machines. His short story “Singularity Ablyss” was published in the 2005 anthology Transformers: Legends. He has taught animation writing at UCLA.