People always put their names on one of these things, like "Bob Tatlewacky grew up in..." Like it wasn't them writing their own bio. So with that said...
Steven K. Jackley has always been a writer; one page narration, turned into short stories and eventually he started writing scripts. It was a hobby until until moving to Portland Oregon, where he hooked up (not sexually, well sometimes sexually) with the right people and started making short film.
Sterling is his home town in Illinois. The neighboring city "a stones throw" away is Rock Falls. He created Sterling Falls Production, not for where he came from, but it was a hole in the ground I will never go back too, sorry "he" will go back too. But still it is a part of me.