Alden is a writer, photographer, and graphic designer. He wrote his first professionally published poem when he was 16. Since then he's been co-creator and head writer of an award-winning English-language telenovela, and writer of several produced one-act plays. He's published articles, columns, poems, stories, and photographs for newspapers, magazines, books, and online publications including Yahoo News and Yahoo Sports. His designs range from a playing card to magazine and book covers to album covers for non-existent musical groups. In spite of being a personist, he shares his home with cats, a dog, rats, mice, fish, chickens, and an occasional human.